Another Civicrm-Drupal Date Issue

Not sure if this relates to drupal view integration in civicrm core or the civicrm_entity module, but I see the latter taking over the former in the future :)

Trying to do something very simple: Display events in Fullcallendar.

The Fullcalendar module provides a view display like the calendar module but it does not recognize civicrm entity event dates as Drupal dates. A few people have tried to address this:
#1346246: Support for CiviCRM Events
#1906200: CiviCRM Start Date not recognized as date

The maintainer says it is a simple fix (but not for a mortal like me...)
I noticed that in mysql, the drupal node dates are stored as int, whereas the drupal dates are stored as datetime.

Some others have faced similar issues:
http://larsolesen.dk/node/273
http://www.rahulsingla.com/blog/2013/03/drupal-7-exposing-date-time-fiel...

About to giveup on fullcalendar ... seemed like something so simple .... One day civicrm entities will be indistinguishable from Drupal entities !!