Bug 203035 Timezones not supported
Build ID: 3.3.0 Reportengine: 2.2.0 Steps To Reproduce: 1. Create a report with a sql statement like this: select system_id, created_on from data_table where created_on > ? and created_on < ? The two parameters are parameters, which must be entered by the user. 2. Run the report with the runtime engine. More information: The runtime engine is embeded into my application. The user can be in different timezones. When a user enteres "11/11/06 11:11" and is in e.g. Tokio, its something different else if a user enters "11/11/06 11:11" and is in London. The 2 users expect different results. How can i set the timezone of the report-engine? Is it possible to set the timezone with runtime-engine? In my eyes it is not possible. The birt-runtime-engine always takes the default timezone of the Java Runtime Engine (TimeZone.getDefault()). I tried to ask this in the newsgroup, but nobody answered. If there is no possibility to set the timezone, this seems to be a "blocker" bug and should be fixed in the next release. Thx Orkus
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/api/script/IReportContext.java
* @param locale
	 *            locale of message, if the input <code>locale</code> is
	 *            <code>null</code>, the locale for the current thread will
	 *            be used instead.
	 * @param params
	 *            string arguments used to format error messages
	 * @return the corresponding locale-dependent messages. Return
	 *         <code>null</code> if resoueceKey is blank.
	 */
	String getMessage( String key, Locale locale, Object[] params );
	
	/**
	 * Get the type of the current task.
	 * @return task type including:
	 * <li><b>0</b> for GetParameterDefinition Task</li>
	 * <li><b>1</b> for Run Task</li>
	 * <li><b>2</b> for Render Task</li>
	 * <li><b>3</b> for Run and Render Task</li>
	 * <li><b>4</b> for DataExtraction Task</li>
	 * <li><b>-1</b> default value for unknown task</li>
	 */
	int getTaskType();
	
	/**
	 * get the report design handle.
	 * @return report design handle
	 */
	ReportDesignHandle getDesignHandle( );
}