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Date and time in Excel are actual numbers where 1 is equal to Jan 01, 1900 and time is decimal part of the number. You may show such numbers as dates by applying to them date and or time format. In General format they will be shown as numbers.
Most probably what you see as dates in General format actually are texts which present the dates. Not the dates themselves. For the texts format doesn't matter.