title: How to stop python auto date parsing while reading a excel file
body: <p>i need to read a excel file without changing any date , time format , float format and convert to data-frame. This is working fine if i convert the excel to CSV and read it using read_csv() .</p>
  <p><strong>eg:</strong></p>
  <pre><code>import pandas as pd
  import numpy as np
  #code for reading excel
  df=pd.read_excel(&quot;605.xlsx&quot;,parse_dates=False,sheet_name=&quot;Group 1&quot;,keep_default_na=False,dtype=str)
  print(&quot;df_excel:&quot;)
  #code for reading csv   
  
  df1=pd.read_csv(&quot;Group 1.csv&quot;,parse_dates=False,dtype=str,na_filter = False)
   print(&quot;df_csv:&quot;,df1)
  </code></pre>
  <p><strong>output:</strong>
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9KjqO.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/9KjqO.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>in the above code parse_dates=False is working fine while reading CSV file, but parse_dates=False is not working in read_excel()</p>
  <p><strong>Expected output:</strong>
  Need the exact excel data into a data-frame without changing the date , time format.</p>