Format Time Stamp String for excel error

Hi all,
I am currently trying to format the time stamp from labview to excel, in an excel recognizable format. Ive attached a photo of that part of the vi. The time stamp is formated correctly when it leaves the format time stamp block and after it leaves the build array block, but when it is written to excel file it is formated in what looks like a standard format and excel does not recognize this as a time stamp.
Any ideas to fix the issue?
Thanks
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Time stamp.PNG ‏7 KB

The Example Finder has a few ActiveX examples I think one uses Excel.
Also if you have the Report Generation Toolkit I think this is what you need
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/38D7104644E0F7A5862578B1001A86C5
It sets the cell format to be how you want. The default for a timestamp is "m/d/yyyy h:mm".
BUT I just think I have an easier solution. The problem is it correctly detects that this is a time stamp, but the cell format is incorrect. If we convince it that it is a string it will look right and I assume that's all that matters. So add a space to the front of your time, so have the format be " %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" (notice the space) and I think it will look the way you want because Excel thinks it is a string.
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