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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the page is no longer valid.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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