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.core/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/designer/util/DEUtil.java
}
			s.append( defaultDecs.substring( 0, remainder ) );
			decStr = s.toString( );
		}
		return decStr;
	}
	/**
	 * @param transferSource
	 * @return true if parameter is parameter group.
	 */
	public static boolean isParameterGroup( Object transferSource )
	{
		return ( transferSource instanceof IDesignElement && ( (IDesignElement) transferSource ).getDefn( )
				.getName( )
				.equals( ReportDesignConstants.PARAMETER_GROUP_ELEMENT ) );
	}
	/**
	 * Get styles
	 * 
	 * @return Alphabetically sortted styles list.
	 */
	public static Iterator getStyles( )
	{
		return getStyles( new AlphabeticallyComparator( ) );
	}
	/**
	 * Get styles
	 * 
	 * @param comparator
	 * @return return styles list sortted with given comparator.