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
colName = ( (DataSetItemModel) model ).getName( );
			}
			return getColumnExpression( colName );
		}
		if ( model instanceof ComputedColumnHandle )
		{
			return getColumnExpression( ( (ComputedColumnHandle) model ).getName( ) );
		}
		if ( model instanceof ResultSetColumnHandle )
		{
			return getResultSetColumnExpression( ( (ResultSetColumnHandle) model ).getColumnName( ) );
		}
		if ( model instanceof DataSetParameterHandle )
		{
			return IReportElementConstants.STOREDPROCUDURE_OUTPUT_PREFIX
					+ "[\"" + escape( ( (DataSetParameterHandle) model ).getName( ) ) + "\"]"; 
		}
		return null;
	}
	/**
	 * Returns the integer font size for string value.
	 * 
	 * @param fontSize
	 * @return
	 */
	public static int getFontSize( String fontSize )
	{
		if ( DesignChoiceConstants.FONT_SIZE_LARGER.equals( fontSize ) )
		{
			fontSize = DesignChoiceConstants.FONT_SIZE_LARGE;