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/layout/ExcelContext.java
private int bottomMargin;
	private int headerHeight;
	private int footerHeight;
	private int sheetIndex = 1;
	private boolean isRTL = false;
	private IReportContext reportContext;
	private Page page;
	public void initialize( IEmitterServices service ) throws EngineException
	{
		if ( service == null )
		{
			return;
		}
		out = EmitterUtil.getOuputStream( service, "report.xls" );
		this.tempFileDir = service.getReportEngine( ).getConfig( ).getTempDir( );
		IReportContext reportContext = service.getReportContext( );
		if ( reportContext != null )
		{
			Locale locale = reportContext.getLocale( );
			this.locale = locale == null ? ULocale.getDefault( ) : ULocale
					.forLocale( locale );
		}
		IRenderOption renderOption = service.getRenderOption( );
		Object option = renderOption
				.getOption( IExcelRenderOption.OPTION_MULTIPLE_SHEET );
		if ( option instanceof Boolean )
			enableMultipleSheet = (Boolean) option;
		this.reportContext = service.getReportContext( );
	}
	public IReportContext getReportContext()