Add zone Time to my field date of type String

[salma.aboumzrag]

I added this param:

        <parameter name="DateFormatter" class="java.text.DateFormat" isForPrompting="false">
                        <defaultValueExpression><![CDATA[$P{REPORT_FORMAT_FACTORY}.createDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'", $P{REPORT_LOCALE}, $P{REPORT_TIME_ZONE})]]></defaultValueExpression>
        </parameter>

And here is my expression :

            <textFieldExpression><![CDATA[$P{DateFormatter}.format($F{createDateTime})]]></textFieldExpression>

Error message: net.sf.jasperreports.engine.fill.JRExpressionEvalException: Error evaluating expression for source text: $P{DateFormatter}.format($F{createDateTime})

[anish.rai]

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[Scott Andersen]

The "java.text.DateFormat.format()" method is used to format a Date into a specific formatted string. You seem to be trying to take a string field and translate it into a Date" object. This requires different java code.

To format a date into a specific string format, use the "Pattern" or the "PatternExpression" property of the text field.

[salma.aboumzrag]

Yes I used a new java code for my field : $P{DateFormatter}.format(new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'").parse($F{createDateTime})) 

but i can't set the time zone to "Europe/paris", however the time zone of my date is +00.

can you help me ?