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## [Why do my timestamps show as dates I download and open in excel or sheets?](https://community.omni.co/t/why-do-my-timestamps-show-as-dates-i-download-and-open-in-excel-or-sheets/346)

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**Author:** [@Jiro](https://community.omni.co/u/Jiro)\
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**Last updated:** [June 19, 2025, 5:44pm UTC](https://community.omni.co/t/why-do-my-timestamps-show-as-dates-i-download-and-open-in-excel-or-sheets/346 "2025-06-19T17:44:39Z")

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Tools like sheets and excel will infer datatypes and in some cases apply formatting automatically. You can see that the actual timestamp value is there, it’s just being truncated and formatted as standard date by def…