My previous blog post [0] covered the simple case of 'Local' dates. If you're able to simplify your application code to avoid the use of timezones then that's a good thing to do, but boycott et al. isn't going to work. It might be possible if you're, say, writing a service internal to your company and all your servers are on UTC - its just a case of choosing something applicable to your domain.
[0] http://insightfullogic.com/blog/2012/dec/14/date-and-time-ja...