title: Magento 1.6: Using MySQL datetime fields with resource models
body: <p>I've set up a database table with a DATETIME field named "release_date", and the model/resource model seem to work fine. However, I want to retrieve and set "release_date" as a Zend_Date object. And I also want to make sure its always stored and retrieved as UTC.</p>
  
  <p>Do you have any suggestions on how I could do this, or perhaps a better solution all together?</p>