title: Error with getting date from excel in php
body: <p>I have a excel document with a <code>date</code> column, containing values like <code>1-Dec-13</code>, however, when I read this file in via PHPExcel, I am getting <code>float(41609)</code>. So, any idea how to get the proper date back from 41609? or why the heck is 41609 in the first place?</p>
  
  <p>My code to read in the excel:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$objReader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReader($inputFileType);
  $objReader-&gt;setReadDataOnly(true);
  $rdata = $objReader-&gt;load($inputFileName);
  $rdata = $rdata-&gt;getActiveSheet()-&gt;toArray(null,true,true,true);
  </code></pre>