Best way to manage date/time variables across different timezones

I have an application that relies heavily on time accuracy. At the moment everything is fine, but soon the system will service customers across multiple timezones. The default behavior of the Date class is to show dates related to the current timezone, is there an easy way (setting) to override this behaviour? The system should show the time entered regardless of the timezone it was entered on.
I use CF 8 for the back-end, and MySQL 5.1 to store data. The front-end is Flex 3/Air 2.
I have looked everywhere, and things like saving dates as strings, or long ints, but if possible, I'd like to find a solution that does not involve dramatic changes to my database/code.

Thanks for your reply, UbuntuPenguin,
Your explanation is correct and what I'm trying to find out is an easy way to override that behaviour.
As an example of what the issue is, let's say an event was entered here, in Toronto,ON, at 3pm, if a customer in Arizona sees the time, he/she will call us immediately to inform us that the event it's supposed to happen at 3pm, and not at 12pm (time that they see with the different timezone).
As far as I've seen, the "best" way to approach this issue is by using the transient tag during data transfer and compensate for the time difference in the client timezone vs the selected "system" timezone using getters/setters, but that implies storing the wrong date/time and locking the system into one timezone, and it's just a hack that may bring undesirable consequences in the future.

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