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/ExcelUtil.java
return "";
			default :
				// case 10: // 'D' - DAY_OF_YEAR
				// case 11: // 'F' - DAY_OF_WEEK_IN_MONTH
				// case 12: // 'w' - WEEK_OF_YEAR
				// case 13: // 'W' - WEEK_OF_MONTH
				// case 16: // 'K' - HOUR: 0-based. eg, 11PM + 1 hour =>> 0 AM
				return "";
		}
		return current.toString( );
	}
	public static String getPattern( Object data, String val )
	{
		if ( val != null && data instanceof Date )
		{
			return replaceDateFormat( val );
		}
		 == null && data instanceof Time )
		{
			return "Long Time";
		}
		 == null && data instanceof java.sql.Date )
		{
			// According to java SDK 1.4.2-16, sql.Date doesn't have
			// a time component.
			yy";// hh:mm AM/PM";
		}
		 == null && data instanceof java.util.Date )
		{
			yy h:mm AM/PM";