and the fact that I want the same value from the data base that I put into it.
"same" in which sense? The same absolute point in time? Or the same point on a calendar? Obviously if the timezone doesn't change, then the two are equivalent; but which one is your application actually looking for? (If your app is using Unix epoch times, then it's looking only at the absolute time and not the calendar time...)
Unix time stamps, short (int) or long res, are always supposed to GMT based, as far as I know - I never seen anything different, except maybe in homebrew software. So it should be both calendar and P.I.T. And you wouldn't need the TZ storage if the date-number and number-> translation itself takes the TZ arg so that it can localize the Human String for you.
Ken
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