Set start date parameter

Question

what is the navagation for setting the start date parameter for the Load Sales Forecast base Summary collection program

Answer 1

This may be a bug. Can you log a bugzilla request to investigate?
Jason
On 12/12/2011 11:32 PM, birtforums7 wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Jason. I looked at the link you posted, but I am
> not sure if it will address the problem I have. That is, the logs show
> the timezone as correct already, it just seems that BIRT is not passing
> the parameter correctly.
>
> For instance, suppose I input a start and end date range of 10/10/11 to
> 10/15/11. The header on the report displays correctly:
>
> Start Date: 10/10/11
> End Date: 10/15/11
>
> The information for the start date in the header was retrieved as follows:
>
>
> <structure>
> <property name="name">startdate</property>
> <expression name="expression">params["startdate"]</expression>
> <property name="dataType">date-time</property>
> </structure>
>
>
> The header takes the time from startdate, which is from
> params["startdate"]. However, when I output the contents of
> params["startdate"] to a log, I receive this:
>
> Sun Oct 09 23:00:00 BRT 2011
> Fri Oct 14 23:00:00 BRT 2011
>
> The code for outputting to the log was:
>
>
> out = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter("c:/temp/out.txt", true));
> out.println(params["startdate"]);
> out.println(params["enddate"]);
> out.close();
>
>
> It is important for params["startdate"] to be exactly what the user
> inputs, since the parameter will be formatted for use in an SQL query.
> The same issue applies to params["enddate"] as well. It seems there is
> some sort of date conversion from the range of 10/10/2011 to 10/16/2011.
>
> If I use any other time range that does not fall within these two dates,
> I receive the expected output. For instance:
>
> Header:
> Start Date: 10/5/11
> End Date: 10/8/11
>
> Log output:
> Wed Oct 05 00:00:00 BRT 2011
> Sat Oct 08 00:00:00 BRT 2011
>
> Is it possible that this is a bug in BIRT?
>
>