apache poi DataFormatter on cell containing date

Question

Good day.

I needed to get cell data from excel files as they look like and bumped to DataFormatter class of apache poi. This works like a charm except f

Answer 1

For fetching the date in desired format you can use following:

  SimpleDateFormat DtFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
  Date date=Test.getRow(RowNum).getCell(CellNum).getDateCellValue();
  System.out.println(DtFormat.format(date).toString());

And now if the cell value is 05/03/2013, it will give o/p as 05/03/2013. I hope this will resolve your problem.