https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48336
Josh Micich <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |NEEDINFO --- Comment #4 from Josh Micich <[email protected]> 2009-12-03 15:17:26 UTC --- A short term work around is for you to use methods from DateUtil like setCalendar to calculate dates with negative 'serial date' values. However it seems like you might be requesting a real change (to how POI behaves). Normally such an enhancement request is rejected on the grounds that it involves POI doing something that Excel considers invalid. However, I agree that the functionality you desire is very reasonable. I think the restriction on dates before 1900 is silly. On the other hand, we can't go about implementing every request for features from other applications that go beyond the Excel file format spec. I want to wait for comments from other POI committers before doing anything. There is also the general question of how we accept/reject/prioritize bugs and feature requests that raise issues of compliance with other applications. I don't know of any POI documentation that deals with this. -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
