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
{
				BookmarkDef bookmark = entry.getValue( );
				defineName( bookmark.getValidName( ), getRefer( bookmark ) );
			}
			writer.closeTag( "Names" );
		}
	}
	private String getRefer( BookmarkDef bookmark )
	{
		StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer( '=' );
		buffer.append( bookmark.getSheetName( ) );
		buffer.append( "!" );
		int startColumn = bookmark.getStartColumn( );
		int startRow = bookmark.getStartRow( );
		addCellPosition( buffer, startColumn, startRow );
		int endColumn = bookmark.getEndColumn( );
		int endRow = bookmark.getEndRow( );
		if ( endRow != -1 && endColumn != -1 && startRow != endRow
				&& startColumn != endColumn )
		{
			buffer.append( ':' );
			addCellPosition( buffer, endColumn, endRow );
		}
		return buffer.toString( );
	}
	private void addCellPosition( StringBuffer buffer, int column, int row )
	{
		buffer.append( "R" );
		buffer.append( String.valueOf( row ) );
		buffer.append( "C" );