Re: Dates in Excel -- RPG400-L

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Dates in Excel spreadsheets are held in numeric cells (floats or RK
numbers) as a day count since (and including) 1st Jan 1900, but with the
added quirk that Excel thinks 19800 was a leap year!

They are shown on screen as human-readable dates by applying a format
string to them.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On 6 January 2012 14:35, <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am trying to read a date from an excel spreadsheet using HSSF. I found
Scott Klements Parsing An Excel Spreadsheet, Part 2: Handling Dates but
the page is no longer valid.

Can someone post how to handle dates? The date in the spread sheet is in
mm/dd/yy format.

Thanks

Steve Jones
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