When reading spreadsheets, Spout should be able to return formatted dates, as shown when opened with Excel for instance.
It currently only returns DateTime/DateInterval objects, making it impossible to read + write, as the Writer does not accept objects.
Although Excel has a Date type, older Excel versions use numeric values to store dates.
The value represents the number of days since Jan 1st, 1900.
The only way to tell if the value is a number or a date is to look at the styles.xml and check if the cell has date formatting.
Adrien Loison