Support for datemode

[graup]

If I'm not mistaken, the xldate_as_tuple supports the (dreaded) datemode, but the Workbook class has no means of obtaining it. Is there any workaround or is this project not usable if you want to have multi-platform support?

/edit: xlrd has this (http://www.lexicon.net/sjmachin/xlrd.html#xlrd.Book-class), plus the same xldate_as_tuple. Can someone explain me how these projects "interact"?

Thanks.