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/IEngineTask.java
public abstract Locale getLocale();
	
	/**
	 * returns the locale for running the task
	 * @return the locale for running the task
	 */
	public abstract ULocale getULocale();
	
	/**
	 * returns the context objects for the task.
	 * 
	 * The return appContext is read only, the user should never try to modify
	 * the value.
	 * 
	 * @return the task contexts
	 */
	public abstract Map getAppContext();
	
	/**
	 * returns the report engine object
	 * @return the engine object
	 */
	public abstract IReportEngine getEngine();
	
	/**
	 * defines an additional Java object that is exposed to BIRT scripting at a per-task level
	 * @param jsName the name that the object is referenced in JavaScript
	 * @param obj the Java object that is wrapped and scripted
	 * @deprecated user should add it to appContext.
	 */