DateTime from MYSQL byte[]/DateTime

I have a tableadapter in Visual Studio with the following select statement
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SELECT rs.RouteScheduleID, rs.RouteID, (@Today - INTERVAL MOD(DATEDIFF(@Today, rs.StartDate), rs.Recurrence) DAY) AS LastScheduledDate...."

The results come out fine in the direct MYSQL command line client. But in the preview box it shows a bunch of red x's for each row under the LastScheduledDate column. When I access the data in my program it is a byte[]. The actual select statement should produce a datetime, so how can I access it as a datetime?

Thanks in advance
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