Hi, thanks for feedback. The solution provided by Vitaly works fine for me.

Thanks a lot, your solution works fine! :-)

Hi, thanks a lot for your answer. Unfortunately importing date format is still not working for me. If I am using: strftime, Object says: Functions does not exits.

General question: What could be the reason, that I am getting the below result: "16@%SYS.Python" by directly importing "date formated column from excel? In my opinion, I should get a numeric value. Days since xxx. I f change the format in excel from date to text, I will get the a value, If i change it back to "date" I will get the result: 

16@%SYS.Python