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.ui/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/designer/ui/dialogs/ParameterDialog.java
if ( ( displayLabel == null && containValue( choice,
				newValue,
				COLUMN_DISPLAY_TEXT ) )
				|| ( containValue( choice, displayLabel, COLUMN_DISPLAY_TEXT ) ) )
		{
			return ERROR_MSG_DUPLICATED_LABEL;
		}
		if ( containValue( choice, newValue, COLUMN_VALUE ) )
		{
			return ERROR_MSG_DUPLICATED_VALUE;
		}
		return null;
	}
	private void changeDefaultValue( String value )
	{
		defaultValue = value;
		updateFormatField( );
		updateMessageLine( );
	}
	private boolean isCustom( )
	{
		if ( DesignChoiceConstants.STRING_FORMAT_TYPE_CUSTOM.equals( formatCategroy )
				|| DesignChoiceConstants.NUMBER_FORMAT_TYPE_CUSTOM.equals( formatCategroy )
				|| DesignChoiceConstants.DATETIEM_FORMAT_TYPE_CUSTOM.equals( formatCategroy ) )
		{
			return true;
		}
		return false;
	}
}