date format wrong fr views - ecause of: FROM_UNIXTIME()

Please reference this cross post... I think the bug is on datefield and not in Views.
http://drupal.org/node/288078

Under 6.x-2.0-beta3 I have a date cck field. The date format saved in the database is: 2008-10-18T00:00:00
Views using FROM_UNIXTIME() cannot read this as a valid date so it results in the date being: 1969-12-31 which of course makes your view wrong.

As I said in the Views post... this is either a format issue on DateField... or a problem with Views and the FROM_UNIXTIME function incorrectly applies localtime correction.

I would think the easy answer is to have datefield save its format like node does... like this: 1215382015

Thoughts?