Bug 320365 Excel emitter don't use reportContext timezone
- Create a blank report ; - Insert a "Data" Object of type "Date Time" without databinding. Write "new Date();" for the javascript expression ; - When invoking your report from the web viewer, configure a timezone with "__timezone" parameter. For instance, for me, "&__timezone=Europe/Paris" (GMT+2) ; - My JVM uses UTC ; - When using frameset servlet, in my browser, i have the right date. For instance 19/07/2010 18:19 (pattern is dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm). ; - When exporting to excel, I obtain a UTC date. For instance : 19/07/2010 16:19 (same pattern) ; - All others emitters are good. I get this issue only with excel. It seems that in jar org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.prototype.excel.xxx.jar, file org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelUtil, method #formatDate, when formatting date as a String with a SimpleDateFormat, you don't use any timezone. Maybe the issue is here. public static String formatDate( Object data ) { SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss", Locale.ENGLISH ); Date date = getDate( data ); if(date == null) { return null; } return dateFormat.format( date ); } An ugly solution is to set the default TimeZone in your initialize script : com.ibm.icu.util.TimeZone.setDefault(reportContext.getTimeZone());
engine/org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.prototype.excel/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/engine/emitter/excel/ExcelXmlWriter.java
Color rightColor = (Color) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.BORDER_RIGHT_COLOR_PROP );
			String rightLineStyle = (String) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.BORDER_RIGHT_STYLE_PROP );
			Integer rightWeight = (Integer) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.BORDER_RIGHT_WIDTH_PROP );
			writeBorder( "Right", rightLineStyle, rightWeight, rightColor );
			Color diagonalColor = (Color) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.BORDER_DIAGONAL_COLOR_PROP );
			String diagonalStyle = (String) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.BORDER_DIAGONAL_STYLE_PROP );
			Integer diagonalWidth = (Integer) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.BORDER_DIAGONAL_WIDTH_PROP );
			writeBorder( "DiagonalLeft", diagonalStyle, diagonalWidth,
					diagonalColor );
			writer.closeTag( "Borders" );
			String fontName = (String) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.FONT_FAMILY_PROP );
			Float size = (Float) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.FONT_SIZE_PROP );
			Boolean fontStyle = (Boolean) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.FONT_STYLE_PROP );
			Boolean fontWeight = (Boolean) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.FONT_WEIGHT_PROP );
			Boolean strikeThrough = (Boolean) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.TEXT_LINE_THROUGH_PROP );
			Boolean underline = (Boolean) style
					.getProperty( StyleConstant.TEXT_UNDERLINE_PROP );
			Color color = (Color) style.getProperty( StyleConstant.COLOR_PROP );
			writeFont( fontName, size, fontWeight, fontStyle, strikeThrough,