Question

I’ve been using UIWebView to render office docs for a while, but recently I noticed that when a date is added in the file, let’s say an Excel file with a date value in one of the cells, the date is (apparently) being modified by the web view.

The weird thing is that I made a test based on two projects. The first one, is a project that I’ve been working on for about a year and the second is new one that I created just for testing purposes.

The dates are being displayed correctly in the new project, but wrong in the old project so I’m starting to think is something regarding the project settings. I also copied the classes from the new project to the old one to see if there was a difference, but even using the new classes, my old project shows incorrect(*) dates for the same excel file…. so that’s weird.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Update 1:
(*)By incorrect dates, I mean there is a time difference between the one displayed in the test project and the one displayed in the old project for the same file.

I changed the title of the question from “… invalid dates” to ” …time difference between” … because the word “invalid” may lead to a misunderstanding.

Answer 1

I was not able to understand what the problem was, but the solution for now is to change the visualization component from UIWebView to the QuickLook framework.

I know this is not the correct answer to the question, but at least is a way to display the document correctly.