diff --git a/qt-ui/divelogimportdialog.cpp b/qt-ui/divelogimportdialog.cpp
index 9d88c038f..bcc6b733b 100644
--- a/qt-ui/divelogimportdialog.cpp
+++ b/qt-ui/divelogimportdialog.cpp
@@ -710,6 +710,8 @@ char *intdup(int index)
 
 int DiveLogImportDialog::setup_csv_params(QStringList r, char **params, int pnr)
 {
+	params[pnr++] = strdup("dateField");
+	params[pnr++] = intdup(r.indexOf(tr("Date")));
 	params[pnr++] = strdup("timeField");
 	params[pnr++] = intdup(r.indexOf(tr("Sample time")));
 	params[pnr++] = strdup("depthField");
@@ -811,7 +813,7 @@ void DiveLogImportDialog::on_buttonBox_accepted()
 					sample->tts.seconds *= 60;
 				}
 			} else {
-				char *params[39];
+				char *params[41];
 				int pnr = 0;
 
 				pnr = setup_csv_params(r, params, pnr);
@@ -878,7 +880,7 @@ void DiveLogImportDialog::on_buttonBox_accepted()
 
 				parse_manual_file(fileNames[i].toUtf8().data(), params, pnr - 1);
 			} else {
-				char *params[39];
+				char *params[41];
 				int pnr = 0;
 
 				pnr = setup_csv_params(r, params, pnr);
diff --git a/xslt/csv2xml.xslt b/xslt/csv2xml.xslt
index 0f8362936..7dc4fa4be 100644
--- a/xslt/csv2xml.xslt
+++ b/xslt/csv2xml.xslt
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
   <xsl:include href="commonTemplates.xsl"/>
   <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
+  <xsl:param name="dateField" select="dateField"/>
   <xsl:param name="timeField" select="timeField"/>
   <xsl:param name="depthField" select="depthField"/>
   <xsl:param name="tempField" select="tempField"/>
@@ -40,7 +41,17 @@
       <dives>
         <dive>
           <xsl:attribute name="date">
-            <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring($date, 1, 4), '-', substring($date, 5, 2), '-', substring($date, 7, 2))"/>
+            <xsl:choose>
+              <xsl:when test="$dateField >= 0">
+                <xsl:call-template name="getFieldByIndex">
+                  <xsl:with-param name="index" select="$dateField"/>
+                  <xsl:with-param name="line" select="substring-after(substring-after(., $lf), $lf)"/>
+                </xsl:call-template>
+              </xsl:when>
+              <xsl:otherwise>
+                <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring($date, 1, 4), '-', substring($date, 5, 2), '-', substring($date, 7, 2))"/>
+              </xsl:otherwise>
+            </xsl:choose>
           </xsl:attribute>
           <xsl:attribute name="time">
             <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring($time, 2, 2), ':', substring($time, 4, 2))"/>