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
}
				else if ( DesignChoiceConstants.PARAM_TYPE_DECIMAL.equals( getSelectedDataType( ) )
						|| DesignChoiceConstants.PARAM_TYPE_FLOAT.equals( getSelectedDataType( ) )
						|| DesignChoiceConstants.PARAM_TYPE_INTEGER.equals( getSelectedDataType( ) ) )
				{
					formatCategroy = choiceSet.findChoice( DesignChoiceConstants.NUMBER_FORMAT_TYPE_UNFORMATTED )
							.getName( );
				}
				formatPattern = null;
			}
			else
			{
				formatCategroy = inputParameter.getCategory( );
				if ( formatCategroy == null )
				{
					formatCategroy = DesignChoiceConstants.STRING_FORMAT_TYPE_UNFORMATTED;
				}
				formatPattern = inputParameter.getPattern( );
			}
		}
		updateFormatField( );
	}
	private void refreshDataSets( )
	{
		String selectedDataSetName = dataSetChooser.getText( );
		String[] oldList = dataSetChooser.getItems( );
		List dataSetList = new ArrayList( );
		for ( Iterator iterator = inputParameter.getModuleHandle( )
				.getVisibleDataSets( )
				.iterator( ); iterator.hasNext( ); )