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
{
			DataSetHandle DataSetHandle = (DataSetHandle) iterator.next( );
			dataSetList.add( DataSetHandle.getQualifiedName( ) );
		}
		if ( inputParameter.getDataSetName( ) != null
				&& !dataSetList.contains( inputParameter.getDataSetName( ) ) )
		{
			dataSetList.add( 0, inputParameter.getDataSetName( ) );
		}
		if ( oldList.length != dataSetList.size( ) )
		{
			dataSetChooser.setItems( (String[]) dataSetList.toArray( new String[]{} ) );
			if ( StringUtil.isBlank( selectedDataSetName ) )
			{
				dataSetChooser.select( 0 );
				refreshColumns( false );
			}
			else
			{
				dataSetChooser.setText( selectedDataSetName );
			}
		}
	}
	private void refreshColumns( boolean onlyFilter )
	{
		if ( columnChooser == null )
		{
			return;
		}
		if ( !onlyFilter )