Parsing Twitter API Datestamp

Question

I\'m using the twitter API to return a list of status updates and the times they were created. It\'s returning the creation date in the following format:

Answer 1

Cross-browser, time-zone-aware parsing via JavaScript:

var s = "Fri Apr 09 12:53:54 +0000 2010";

var date = new Date(
    s.replace(/^\w+ (\w+) (\d+) ([\d:]+) \+0000 (\d+)$/,
        "$1 $2 $4 $3 UTC"));

Tested on IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera.