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
&& pageWidth == 250 / 10 * POINTS_PER_CM )
			return PAPER_B5_ENVELOPE;
		if ( pageHeight == 3.875 * ExcelUtil.INCH_PT
				&& pageWidth == 7.5 * ExcelUtil.INCH_PT )
			return PAPER_MONARCH_ENVELOPE;
		if ( pageHeight == 250 / 10 * POINTS_PER_CM
				&& pageWidth == 353 / 10 * POINTS_PER_CM )
			return PAPER_ISOB4;
		return PAPER_A4;
	}
	public static String truncateCellText( String txt )
	{
		if ( txt.length( ) > maxCellTextLength )
		{
			txt = txt.substring( 0, maxCellTextLength );
			logger.log( Level.WARNING,
					"The text length should not exceed 32767 characters!" );
		}
		return txt;
	}
	public static SheetData getRealData( SheetData data )
	{
		while ( data != null && data.isBlank( ) )
		{
			data = ( (BlankData) data ).getData( );
		}
		return data;
	}
}