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/ReportParameterConverter.java
* @param format format to format report parameter, or recover parameter value as object
	 * given a string as report parameter value
	 * @param locale the locale to format/parse the parameter value
	 */
	public ReportParameterConverter( String format, Locale locale )
	{
		this( format, ULocale.forLocale( locale ) );
	}
	
	public ReportParameterConverter( String format, ULocale uLocale )
	{
		this.format = format;
		this.uLocale = uLocale;
	}
	
	private StringFormatter getStringFormatter( )
	{
		if ( sf == null && uLocale != null )
		{
			sf = new StringFormatter( uLocale );
			if ( format != null )
			{
				sf.applyPattern( format );
			}
		}
		return sf;
	}
	
	private NumberFormatter getNumberFormatter( )
	{