Bug 147558 Passing date parameters to drill-through reports
Due to the date/time format, I can't pass a date parameter to a drill-through report. The date/time input requires that the user enters the date in a very specific format otherwise, the viewer does not recognize it as a valid date. Therefore, I set my text box to be have the date/time format 'dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm' which is user-friendly. When I bind the param to the drill-through report, it passes 'Jan 1, 20006 22:33' or something in that order. Then the report that was being called returns that it is not a valid date. There is no function to format a date object to a specific format (or that I could find).
viewer/org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer/birt/WEB-INF/classes/org/eclipse/birt/report/utility/ParameterAccessor.java
/**
	 * URL parameter name that gives the report design name.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_REPORT = "__report"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that gives the report document name.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_REPORT_DOCUMENT = "__document"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that gives the format to display the report, html or
	 * pdf.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_FORMAT = "__format"; 
	/**
	 * Format parameter constants to display the report in html.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_FORMAT_HTM = "htm"; 
	public static final String PARAM_FORMAT_HTML = "html"; 
	/**
	 * Format parameter constants to display the report in pdf.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_FORMAT_PDF = "pdf"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that gives the locale.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_LOCALE = "__locale"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that determins to support the SVG or not.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_SVG = "__svg";