How to write Date into an excel file in a specific format

I am trying to build an excel sheet which has date in a specific column. I am doing something like this: sheet.getCell('A6').value(new Date());

when I generate the excel sheet, this gives me 4/9/2018

I would like it to display this instead: 4/9/2018 12:26:00 PM

[guyonroche]

@pmaiya - if you want to control how the date appears when loaded in Excel, then you need to use cell formatting:

sheet.getCell('A6').value = new Date();
sheet.getCell('A6').numFmt = 'm/d/yyyy\\ h:mm:ss\\ AM/PM'; // I think this is right ;-)

[nabeelz6]

@guyonroche - Should defining the numFmt like you did also work for column styles? I’m doing the following but still seems to show original date format (e.g. 8/1/18) instead of expected (e.g. 01/08/2018 for format below)

worksheet.columns = [
    { header: 'Id', key: 'id', width: 10 },
    { header: 'Name', key: 'name', width: 32 },
    { header: 'D.O.B.', key: 'DOB', width: 10, style: { numFmt: 'dd/mm/yyyy' } }
];

// Via streaming
worksheet.addRow({
   id: '1',
   name: 'my name',
   DOB: new Date()
}).commit();