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
core/org.eclipse.birt.core/src/org/eclipse/birt/core/format/DateFormatter.java
}
		if ( formatPattern.equals( "Short Time" ) )
		{
			SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat( "kk:mm", locale );
			formatCode = dateFormat.toPattern( );
		}
		if ( UNFORMATTED.equals( formatPattern ) ||
				DATETIME_UNFORMATTED.equals( formatPattern ) ||
				DATE_UNFORMATTED.equals( formatPattern ) ||
				TIME_UNFORMATTED.equals( formatPattern ) )
		{
			formatCode = "";
		}
			
		return formatCode;
	}
	/**
	 * Parses the input string into a formatted date type.
	 * 
	 * @param date
	 *            the input string to parse
	 * @return the formatted date
	 * @throws ParseException
	 *             if the beginning of the specified string cannot be parsed.
	 */
	public Date parse( String date ) throws ParseException
	{
		return dateTimeFormat.parse( date );
	}
}