What actually happens is that the parser is interpreting your dashes as the START of an ISO-8601 string in the format "YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ", which is in UTC time by default (hence the trailing 'Z').
You can produce such dates by using the "toISOString()" date function as well.
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_toisostring.asp
In Chrome (doesn't work in IE 10-) if you add " 00:00" or " 00:00:00" to your date (no 'T'), then it wouldn't be UTC anymore, regardless of the dashes. ;)
