Bug 153842 BIRT Designer not storing date/time parameter value in locale-neutral format
In BIRT Designer, create a new report parameter of "Date/Time" type. In the default value dialog enter a date/time string valid for the user locale. In my case, I am on US English locale and I entered a date string "1/23/2006 4:56pm". View the report design XML file and you find: <scalar-parameter name="dateParam" id="6"> <property name="defaultValue">1/23/2006 4:56 pm</property> ... The default value string is stored in the format that's only valid for the current locale. EXPECTED BEHAVIOR: Date/time value should be stored in one of the following locale-neutral formats. Complete date: YYYY-MM-DD (eg 1997-07-16) Complete date plus hours and minutes: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm (eg 1997-07-16T19:20) Complete date plus hours, minutes and seconds: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30) Complete date plus hours, minutes, seconds and a decimal fraction of a second YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.s (eg 1997-07-16T19:20:30.45)
UI/org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.core/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/designer/util/DEUtil.java
notSupportList.add( getMetaDataDictionary( ).getElement( ReportDesignConstants.LINE_ITEM ) );
		notSupportList.add( getMetaDataDictionary( ).getElement( ReportDesignConstants.TEMPLATE_REPORT_ITEM ) );
		notSupportList.add( getMetaDataDictionary( ).getElement( ReportDesignConstants.FREE_FORM_ITEM ) );
		notSupportList.add( getMetaDataDictionary( ).getElement( ReportDesignConstants.GRAPHIC_MASTER_PAGE_ELEMENT ) );
	}
	/**
	 * Gets the support list of the given parent element and the slotID.
	 * 
	 * @param parent
	 *            the parent element
	 * @param slotId
	 *            the slotID
	 * @return the element list that is supported with the given parent element
	 *         and in the given slotID
	 */
	public static List getElementSupportList( DesignElementHandle parent,
			int slotId )
	{
		List list = new ArrayList( );
		ISlotDefn slotDefn = parent.getDefn( ).getSlot( slotId );
		if ( slotDefn != null )
		{
			list.addAll( slotDefn.getContentExtendedElements( ) );
			list.removeAll( notSupportList );
		}
		
		List availableList = new ArrayList( );
		for ( int i = 0; i < list.size( ); i++ )
		{
			if ( parent.canContain( slotId,