Set Date format using Apache POI

Question

I want to set date in date format in excel file with Apache POI. The value will set in such a manner so that in Address Bar it will show in mm/dd/YYYY and in cell it will show i

Answer 1

Best approach is:

HSSFDataFormatter hdf = new HSSFDataFormatter();
System.out.println (hdf.formatCellValue(mycell));

This worked completely fine with me. This piece of code simply returns the cell in its raw form, no change at all in its format.