Bill,

I submitted a patch last week mainly to fix date conversions from 
Workbooks using 1904 date windowing.  In that patch I also added about a 
dozen new date formats to the HSSFDateUtil.isInternalDateFormat(int) 
method.  I think all those you list are there.  You can keep an eye on 
whether the patch is accepted (and vote for it if you wish) here:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14375

Dan

>
>Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 22:02:20 -0700
>From: Bill Winspur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Date/Time Formats: Spec is subset of product
>To: Poi user list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>HSSFDateUtil.isCellDateFormatted() refers to the Excel Dev's Kit
>as the authority for its list of built in date and time formats.
>However the excel product seems to have moved on, my copy shows
>about 19 formats in its cell formatting dialog box, and does not
>have any obvious way to add more formats.
>
>The result is, isCellDateFormatted() fails for some legitimate
>xcel date/time strings.
>
>I made an xls that used all formats (I may have missed one) on
>the same date/time and then used HSSF to dump out the format
>indices xcel uses, as shown here in rows 3-13 and 15-22.
>
>=========================== START testAnalyseXcelDateFormats
>. row[0] ,  cell 0: null
>. row[1] , === not numeric ===
>. row[2] , === not numeric ===
>. row[3] , col 0, built-in format: e  , m/d/yy
>. row[4] , col 0, outside XDK spec a5
>. row[5] , col 0, built-in format: 10 , d-mmm
>. row[6] , col 0, built-in format: f  , d-mmm-yy
>. row[7] , col 0, outside XDK spec a6
>. row[8] , col 0, outside XDK spec a7
>. row[9] , col 0, outside XDK spec a8
>. row[10], col 0, outside XDK spec a9
>. row[11], col 0, built-in format: 16 , m/d/yy h:mm
>. row[12], col 0, outside XDK spec aa
>. row[13], col 0, outside XDK spec ab
>. row[14], === not numeric ===
>. row[15], col 0, built-in format: 14 , h:mm
>. row[16], col 0, built-in format: 12 , h:mm AM/PM
>. row[17], col 0, built-in format: 15 , h:mm:ss
>. row[18], col 0, built-in format: 13 , h:mm:ss AM/PM
>. row[19], col 0, built-in format: 2f , mm:ss.0
>. row[20], col 0, built-in format: 2e , [h]:mm:ss
>. row[21], col 0, outside XDK spec a9
>. row[22], col 0, built-in format: 16 , m/d/yy h:mm
>=========================== EXIT testAnalyseXcelDateFormats
>
>Since xcel has a fixed number of time/date formats, all
>uniquely id'd by dataformat indexes, why not just extend the list
>in HSSFDateUtil.isCellDateFormatted() to recognize them ?
>
>Bill.
>

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