Agarwal, Vinay (Cognizant) wrote: >Hi, I am not sure if this is a bug . > I am trying to read a xls file which has a cell with Date format. > I have used EventExample.java for this purpose. What is happening is >that >instead of date it returns me a number. I looked at the APIs for DateRecord >but >there isn't such class. I am just wondering how to get around this problem,I >am >aware that Excel stores dates as numbers and probably i am getting that >number. > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-poi/src/java/org/apache/poi/hssf/usermodel/HSSFDateUtil.java
> >Why dont we have DateRecord class similar to NumericRecord. > Because Excel doesn't. The records are matched to low-level structures in Excel. -Andy
