Question

I have get the date from excel sheet using POI using the below code,

if (DateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(currentCell))
                {
                    Date date = currentCell.getDateCellValue();
                    cellValue = date.getDate() + "/" + (date.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + (1900 + date.getYear());
}

By default the date format of excel sheet is MM/dd/yy. But if I make the month value is greater than 12 (i.e >= 13), the format is changed to dd/MM/yy.

By the above code,If I give date as 10/11/2010, it gives month as 10 and date as 11. If I give it like 15/10/2010, I got month as 10 and date as 15.

But I need to maintain the one format that is dd/MM/yyyy. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Use SimpleDateFormat to format the date because “currentCell.getDateCellValue()) returns a Date.

if (DateUtil.isCellDateFormatted(currentCell))
{
   try {

    SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
    cellValue =  = sdf.format(currentCell.getDateCellValue());

    } catch (ParseException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

This should prevent the automatic conversion that is taking place.