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Is pandas.read_spss misreading datetime into unix?

I have a sav file with a datetime column in %m/%d/%Y string format. When I read it in with pd.read_spss(), which doesn’t seem to have any datetime-related arguments, it ends up in what looks like unix time, except that the time would be a few centuries from now with unique values including 13778726400, …