How to make correct date format when writing data to Excel

Question

Iam exporting a DataTable to an Excel-file using office interop. The problem is, that Excel does not recognize dates as such, but instead it displays numbers. In another cas

Answer 1

To format by code Date in Excel cells try this:

Excel.Range rg = (Excel.Range)xlWorkSheet.Cells[numberRow, numberColumn];

rg.NumberFormat = CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern;

After this you can set the DateTime value to specific cell

xlWorkSheet.Cells[numberRow, numberColumn] = myDate;

If you want to set entire column try this: Excel.Range rg = (Excel.Range)xlWorkSheet.Cells[numberRow, numberColumn];

rg.EntireColumn.NumberFormat = 
    CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern;

Answer 2

Try using

DateTime.ToOADate()

And putting that as a double in the cell. There could be issues with Excel on Mac Systems (it uses a different datetime-->double conversion), but it should work well for most cases.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Hope this help

private bool isDate(Range cell)
    {
        if (cell.NumberFormat.ToString().Contains("/yy"))
        {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

isDate(worksheet.Cells[irow, icol])

Answer 4

Try this solution, in my softwarew work very well:

if (obj != null)
{
    if (obj is DateTime)
    {
        if (DateTime.MinValue == ((DateTime)obj))
        {

            xlWorkSheet.Cells[x,y] = String.Empty;

        }
        else
        {

            dynamic opp = ((DateTime)obj);
            xlWorkSheet.Cells[x,y] = (DateTime)opp;

        }
    }
}