Re: Dates in Excel

[sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

What I ended up doing is:

NumDate         s                   like(jdouble) 
NewDate         s               d 
NumDate = HSSFCell_getNumericCellValue(cell); 
NewDate = ss_xls2date(NumDate); 

The HSSFCell_getNumericCellValue(cell);  & ss_xls2date(NumDate); are from 
Scott Klements HSSF routines. 
 
Thanks for everyone's help

Steve Jones



From:   "Peter Clifford, ariadne software" 
<peter.clifford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     "RPG programming on the IBM i / System i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, 

Date:   01/06/2012 10:03 PM
Subject:        Re: Dates in Excel
Sent by:        rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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 the page is no longer valid.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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