Oh, I see.
Um, once again, my mega-disclaimer of NOT being an expert at tables.....
But according to
this page, there doesn't seem to be a default cell-editor to do that. (see about halfway down the page regarding editors/renderers).
It looks kind of like you'll have to create your own cell renderer and editor in a table model of your own design, and have all the dirty work done there.
On the other hand, from a user perspective, using a custom editer and renderer won't seem as slow as the initial lag that may occur if you have to convert thousands of them before displaying.
Even if you did convert them all to Date before displaying, unless you're happy with the format in short date style format, you'd still have to do your own renderer and editor.
[ February 03, 2005: Message edited by: Joe Vahabzadeh ]
[ February 03, 2005: Message edited by: Joe Vahabzadeh ]