Really? Details please! Didn't see any way to 
use custom date formats in 1.5.1.


Eric

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 7:50 PM
> To: POI Users List
> Subject: Re: Dates, Dates and more dates.
> 
> 
> Not true.  Custom formats are available.
> 
> On 6/5/03 7:13 PM, "George Papastamatopoulos"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > ahhh.. thanks.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eric Hsiung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Thursday, 5 June 2003 9:53 PM
> > To: 'POI Users List'
> > Subject: RE: Dates, Dates and more dates.
> > 
> > 
> >> Turns out the dates I was using in my application were all
> >> set to the last
> >> millisecond of the day eg 23:59:59:999.  Looks like excel was
> >> rounding this
> >> value up to the nearest second, thus pushing the value
> >> displayed in the cell
> >> to the next day.  I think (although my understanding of excel
> >> is limited)
> >> this would be due to the fact that excel understands only
> >> hours, minutes and
> >> seconds?
> >> 
> >> george
> > 
> > Excel can display up to milliseconds but you'll have to
> > specify a custom format of "m/d/yyyy h:mm:ss.00".
> > Alas, you cannot do this via POI since custom formats are
> > not available. :-(
> > 
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> > 
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