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# [Unix Timestamp to Excel Date: Why Serial 60 Is a Day That Never Existed](https://confileo-eng.hashnode.dev/unix-timestamp-to-excel-date-why-serial-60-is-a-day-that-never-existed?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

You paste 1756771200 into a spreadsheet and want to see a date. Or you export a sheet and your API receives a column of numbers like 46236.5 instead of dates. Both directions look trivial and both go

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