title: PHPExcel - read time value from a cell
body: <p>I'm loading an Excel file that has cells with time data, e.g. 08:00:00. But when I try to read those cells with getValue(), it returns some floating point numbers instead of the actual time (in case of 08:00:00, it returns 0.3333333). Here's my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code> $objPHPExcel = PHPExcel_IOFactory::load($filename);
   $objWorksheet = $objPHPExcel-&gt;getActiveSheet();
   echo $objWorksheet-&gt;getCellByColumnAndRow(3, 5)-&gt;getValue();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I bypass this weird conversion?</p>
  
  <p>PHPExcel 1.7.6 and Excel 2003 Worksheet (.xls)</p>