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
}
		String columnRegExp = "(" + sb.substring( 0, sb.length( ) - 1 ) + ")";
		columnRegExp = columnRegExp.replaceAll( reg3, "Z" );
		columnRegExp = columnRegExp.replaceAll( reg4, "Z" );
		String aggregateRegExp = reg1 + columnRegExp + reg2;
		exp = exp.replaceAll( reg3, "Z" );
		exp = exp.replaceAll( reg4, "Z" );
		Pattern p = Pattern.compile( aggregateRegExp );
		Matcher m = p.matcher( exp );
		boolean agg = m.matches( );
		p = Pattern.compile( columnRegExp );
		m = p.matcher( exp );
		return agg || m.matches( );
	}
	/**
	 * @param value
	 * @param parent
	 *            with of parent, the unit is 1/1000 point.
	 * @return
	 */
	public static int convertDimensionType( DimensionType value, float parent,
			float dpi )
	{
		float INCH_PX = dpi;
		float PX_PT = INCH_PT / INCH_PX;
		if ( value == null )
		{
			return (int) ( parent );
		}
		if ( DimensionType.UNITS_PERCENTAGE.equals( value.getUnits( ) ) )