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
{
		protected static final char[] XLS_TEXT_ENCODE = new char[]{'&', '<',
				'\r', '\n'};
		static String encodeXLSText( String s )
		{
			char[] chars = s.toCharArray( );
			int length = chars.length;
			int index = testEscape( chars, XLS_TEXT_ENCODE );
			if ( index >= length )
			{
				return s;
			}
			StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder( 2 * length );
			sb.append( chars, 0, index );
			while ( index < length )
			{
				char c = chars[index++];
				if ( Character.isHighSurrogate( c ) )
				{
					index += decodeSurrogate( c, chars, index, sb );
				}
				else if ( isValidCodePoint( c ) )
				{
					if ( c == '&' )
					{
						sb.append( "&amp;" );