Bug 177693 Support Date/Time data type in BIRT report engine.
Report engine needs to support new BIRT data type Date/Time. Please see attached for details.
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/api/ReportParameterConverter.java
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 * Copyright (c) 2004 Actuate Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
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 * Contributors:
 *     Actuate Corporation - Initial implementation.
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package org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.api;
import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Locale;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.format.DateFormatter;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.format.NumberFormatter;
import org.eclipse.birt.core.format.StringFormatter;
import com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale;
/**
 * Utilites class to convert report paramete value between object and string. 
 */
public class ReportParameterConverter
{
	private String format = null;
	private Locale locale = null;
	/**
	 * @param format format to format report parameter, or recover parameter value as object
	 * given a string as report parameter value