Apache POI to Create Excel Date Time Cell in m/d/yy h:mm:ss Format
Tags: Apache POI
Java Code Examples for
- org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell.createCell()
The example below to create a new Excel file with one worksheet and a date time cell in m/d/yy h:mm:ss format using Apache POI library.
package simplesolution.dev;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.CreationHelper;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Row;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.CellStyle;
import org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Cell;
import org.apache.poi.xssf.usermodel.XSSFWorkbook;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.Date;
public class CreateHelperCreateDataFormatDateTimeExample {
public static void main(String... args) {
Workbook workbook = new XSSFWorkbook();
Sheet sheet = workbook.createSheet("Simple Solution");
Row row = sheet.createRow(0);
CreationHelper creationHelper = workbook.getCreationHelper();
CellStyle cellStyle = workbook.createCellStyle();
short dateTimeFormat = creationHelper.createDataFormat().getFormat("m/d/yy h:mm:ss");
cellStyle.setDataFormat(dateTimeFormat);
Cell cell = row.createCell(0);
cell.setCellValue(new Date());
cell.setCellStyle(cellStyle);
String fileName = "D:\\Data\\sample.xlsx";
try(OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(fileName)) {
workbook.write(outputStream);
} catch (IOException ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
The output Excel file as below:
Happy Coding 😊
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