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
if ( style.equalsIgnoreCase( "Continuous" ) )
			return "thin";
		return null;
	}
	public static String capitalize( String text )
	{
		boolean capitalizeNextChar = true;
		char[] array = text.toCharArray( );
		 i < array.length; i++ )
		{
			Character c = Character.valueOf( text.charAt( i ) );
			if ( splitChar.contains( c ) )
				capitalizeNextChar = true;
			else if ( capitalizeNextChar )
			{
				array[i] = Character.toUpperCase( array[i] );
				capitalizeNextChar = false;
			}
		}
		return new String( array );
	}
	/**
	 * Get cell Ref from col no. For example: 1-A 27-AA 676-YZ
	 * 
	 * @param row
	 *            --row no
	 * @param column
	 *            -- col no
	 * @return the cell refrence in excel
	 */