Dear Bulent,

Try to format as "mmm/yy" (attached I'm sending the modified file). It worked for me :-)

Best,
Henrique

2012/4/4 Bulent Erdemir <bulente@gmail.com>
Hi,

Can't read date column into gretl. I've read the manual, formatted the column as gretl would expect (file is attached). But when I want to read the file I receive and error message saying "can't make sense of the extra bit". 
It seems, gretl sees the internal excel date value which is a number representing the date value as the number of days since 1/1/1900 (A serial number 1 represents 1/1/1900 internally in Excel). 
Tried many variations with no luck.

Assuming this might be due to local regional settings (which were Turkish) having different date formats, I switched to English (USA) settings and tried, but did not work. 

Any ideas ? 

Thanks,
Bulent Erdemir