AIR SQLite timezone question (JavaScript)

Question

SQLite stores dates in UTC, which is great, but when I fetch the value, the resulting date object is incorrectly offset. Hopefully I'm missing something obvious and someone can point it out. Here's what I'm doing:
CREATE TABLE myTable ("id" INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ,"created" DATE);
INSERT INTO myTable (id,created) VALUES (1,DATETIME('NOW'));
SELECT id,created FROM myTable WHERE id=1;
My expectation is that the INSERT will store the current date/time adjusted to UTC. Because the AIR runtime casts date values to JavaScript date objects, my expectation is that the SELECT would give me back a valid date object, from which I could display either UTC or local time information. And it almost does.
Suppose 'NOW' is 11:42:23 AM Pacific Time (GMT-8). I would expect the time information from toString() on the resulting date object to print something like "11:42:23 GMT-0800" but instead, I'm getting "19:42:23 GMT-0800". Clearly, it's a timezone issue because minutes and seconds look good. It's like AIR (or SQLite) is assuming that the value "11:42:23" is already UTC when inserting, and when AIR creates the resulting date object, it's applying the 8 hour timezone offset.
I tried the solution posted here, which is to modify the INSERT as follows.
INSERT INTO myTable (id,created) VALUES (1,DATETIME('NOW','localtime'));
That works, but I don't want to store these values as local times, I want to store them as UTC and display them as local times. Meaning I should be able to store "11:42:23" in the Pacific timezone, and if I change to Eastern, I expect that value to be displayed as "14:42:43". When I use this solution, toString prints "11:42:23 GMT-0500".

Answer 1

Update: Based on this topic on Stack Overflow, I tried changing the value in the insert from "DATETIME('NOW')" with a parameter:
stmt.parameters[":created"] = new window.runtime.Date();
(Aside: it's kind of annoying that AIR does not support JS dates, I'd like to see that change.)
Anyway, this still doesn't solve the original problem. It works just like using DATETIME('NOW','localtime'). If the value goes in at 1:54pm PST, and I change the timezone to EST and read the value, it displays as "1:54pm EST", when I would expect it to be "4:54pm EST".
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!