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When importing a CSV file with fields defined in CSVT, QGIS ignores fields designated as "Date" and imports them as QSTRING / text. I have confirmed that my CSVT file is properly formatted and the import does make use of field designations for "Real","Integer","String".

Data samples as follows:

GIS-Locations_2.4.csvt:

"Real","Real","Integer","String","String","String","String","String","String","String","Integer","Real","Date","Date","Date","Date","String","String","String","String","String"

GIS-Locations_2.4.csv (first few lines):

"X","Y","accuracy code","postcode","unique-id","name","network","denomination","notes","website","awards","icon-size2","award1","award2","award3","award4","wildlife-biodiversity","solar","date-built","churches trust URL","OS ref" 
"349344.8977","1053019.497","2","KW17 2BU","2203","St. Ann's, Papa Westray","Orkney Islands","C of S","","","4","3","2003-10-09","2006-08-19","2009-07-07","2013-11-01","","x","1841","http://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/st-anns-papa-westray","HY495516" 
"345691","1046915","3","KW17 2DB","2202","Westray Church","Orkney Islands","C of S","","","4","3","2003-10-09","2006-08-19","2009-07-08","2013-11-01","","","1846","http://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/westray-parish-kirk","HY457462" 
"272400.702","655262.3425","2","ML3 7DT","2801","St John's Church Of Scotland, Hamilton","South Lanarkshire","C of S","","http://www.stjohnshamilton.org.uk","3","2.5","2003-05-01","2006-03-05","2009-07-09","","","","1835","http://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/st-johns-church-hamilton","NS724553"

I have confirmed that running GDAL from the command line gives the expected result (using "ogrinfo GIS-Locations_2.4.csv -al").

I initially thought this might be user error, and so put up a post on gis.stackexchange.com (http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/146291/importing-csv-file-with-csvt-data-in-qgis-2-8-will-not-assign-type-date-to-f) but have concluded (with help) that this is likely a bug in the current build of QGIS. I'm running 2.8.2 (but also had problem in 2.8.1) on MacOS 10.10.3 and have also confirmed that this is an issue in QGIS windows (running inside virtualbox on Win XP).