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 page number to display the report.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_PAGE = "__page"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that gives the report design name.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_ISNULL = "__isnull"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that determines to support masterpage or not.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_MASTERPAGE = "__masterpage"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that determines whether the BIRT application is
	 * running in the designer or standalone.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_DESIGNER = "__designer"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that determines whether to overwrite the document or
	 * not.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_OVERWRITE = "__overwrite"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that gives the image ID to display.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_IMAGEID = "__imageID"; 
	/**
	 * URL parameter name that gives the bookmark expression.
	 */
	public static final String PARAM_BOOKMARK = "__bookmark";