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
private void startCell( int cellIndex, int colspan, int rowspan,
			int styleId, HyperlinkDef hyperLink ,BookmarkDef linkedBookmark)
	{
		writer.openTag( "Cell" );
		writer.attribute( "ss:Index", cellIndex );
		if ( styleId > 0 )
		{
			writer.attribute( "ss:StyleID", styleId );
		}
		if ( hyperLink != null )
		{
			String urlAddress = hyperLink.getUrl( );
			if ( hyperLink.getType( ) == IHyperlinkAction.ACTION_BOOKMARK )
			{
				if ( linkedBookmark != null )
					urlAddress = "#" + linkedBookmark.getValidName( );
				else
				{
					logger.log( Level.WARNING, "The bookmark: {" + urlAddress
							+ "} is not defined!" );
				}
			}
			if ( urlAddress != null && urlAddress.length( ) >= 255 )
			{
				logger.log( Level.WARNING, "The URL: {" + urlAddress
						+ "} is too long!" );
				urlAddress = urlAddress.substring( 0, 254 );
			}
			writer.attribute( "ss:HRef", urlAddress );
			if ( hyperLink.getToolTip( ) != null )