diff --git a/crates/nu_plugin_polars/src/dataframe/command/datetime/as_date.rs b/crates/nu_plugin_polars/src/dataframe/command/datetime/as_date.rs
index 41dadd8646..aa36e44ece 100644
--- a/crates/nu_plugin_polars/src/dataframe/command/datetime/as_date.rs
+++ b/crates/nu_plugin_polars/src/dataframe/command/datetime/as_date.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ use super::super::super::values::NuDataFrame;
 
 use nu_plugin::{EngineInterface, EvaluatedCall, PluginCommand};
 use nu_protocol::{
-    Category, Example, LabeledError, PipelineData, ShellError, Signature, SyntaxShape, Type,
+    record, Category, Example, LabeledError, PipelineData, ShellError, Signature, Span,
+    SyntaxShape, Type, Value,
 };
 use polars::prelude::{IntoSeries, StringMethods};
 
@@ -52,6 +53,16 @@ impl PluginCommand for AsDate {
                 example: r#"["2021-12-30" "2021-12-31 21:00:00"] | polars into-df | polars as-date "%Y-%m-%d" --not-exact"#,
                 result: None,
             },
+            Example {
+                description: "Output is of date type",
+                example: r#"["2021-12-30" "2021-12-31 21:00:00"] | polars into-df | polars as-date "%Y-%m-%d" --not-exact | polars schema"#,
+                result: Some(Value::record(
+                    record! {
+                        "date" => Value::string("date", Span::test_data()),
+                    },
+                    Span::test_data(),
+                )),
+            },
         ]
     }
 
diff --git a/crates/nu_plugin_polars/src/dataframe/values/nu_dataframe/conversion.rs b/crates/nu_plugin_polars/src/dataframe/values/nu_dataframe/conversion.rs
index b84e85a632..8b061b3945 100644
--- a/crates/nu_plugin_polars/src/dataframe/values/nu_dataframe/conversion.rs
+++ b/crates/nu_plugin_polars/src/dataframe/values/nu_dataframe/conversion.rs
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ use polars::datatypes::{AnyValue, PlSmallStr};
 use polars::prelude::{
     ChunkAnyValue, Column as PolarsColumn, DataFrame, DataType, DatetimeChunked, Float32Type,
     Float64Type, Int16Type, Int32Type, Int64Type, Int8Type, IntoSeries, ListBooleanChunkedBuilder,
-    ListBuilderTrait, ListPrimitiveChunkedBuilder, ListStringChunkedBuilder, ListType, NamedFrom,
-    NewChunkedArray, ObjectType, PolarsError, Schema, SchemaExt, Series, StructChunked,
+    ListBuilderTrait, ListPrimitiveChunkedBuilder, ListStringChunkedBuilder, ListType, LogicalType,
+    NamedFrom, NewChunkedArray, ObjectType, PolarsError, Schema, SchemaExt, Series, StructChunked,
     TemporalMethods, TimeUnit, UInt16Type, UInt32Type, UInt64Type, UInt8Type,
 };
 
@@ -441,10 +441,16 @@ fn typed_column_to_series(name: PlSmallStr, column: TypedColumn) -> Result<Serie
                 }
             });
 
-            let res: DatetimeChunked = ChunkedArray::<Int64Type>::from_iter_options(name, it)
-                .into_datetime(TimeUnit::Nanoseconds, None);
-
-            Ok(res.into_series())
+            ChunkedArray::<Int64Type>::from_iter_options(name, it)
+                .into_datetime(TimeUnit::Nanoseconds, None)
+                .cast_with_options(&DataType::Date, Default::default())
+                .map_err(|e| ShellError::GenericError {
+                    error: "Error parsing date".into(),
+                    msg: "".into(),
+                    span: None,
+                    help: Some(e.to_string()),
+                    inner: vec![],
+                })
         }
         DataType::Datetime(tu, maybe_tz) => {
             let dates = column