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/impl/EngineTask.java
*            reference to report engine
	 * @param appContext
	 *            a user-defined object that capsulates the context for running
	 *            a task. The context object is passed to callback functions
	 *            (i.e., functions in image handlers, action handlers, etc. )
	 *            that are written by those who embeds engine in their
	 *            applications
	 */
	protected EngineTask( IReportEngine engine, IReportRunnable runnable )
	{
		taskID = id++;
		this.engine = engine;
		this.log = engine.getLogger( );
		
		executionContext = new ExecutionContext( this );
		
		executionContext.setReportContext( new ReportContextImpl(
				executionContext ) );
		setReportRunnable( runnable );
		
		setAppContext( engine.getConfig( ).getAppContext( ) );
		cancelFlag = false;
		runningStatus = STATUS_NOT_STARTED;
	}
	protected EngineTask( IReportEngine engine, IReportRunnable runnable,
			int taskType )
	{
		this( engine, runnable );
		this.taskType = taskType;
	}