title: How to read dates using xlrd?
body: <p>This is the code where "rec" variable is used to read the dates in excel sheet but its printing float value how to print that in date format for example '2015:09:02'</p>
  
  <pre><code>for rec in sorted(out.keys()):
  print rec #printing float values
  print str(out[rec])
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I got output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>42240.0
  24
  </code></pre>