Dan, Great - I was wondering when I'd find the time, Bill.
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Subject: Re:Date/Time Formats: Spec is subset of product


> 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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