Converting IETF-syntax date string to Date

[Squids]

Hello! I have a quick question. I can't seem to convert a date string which is in the IETF syntax into a Date object. The following code does not work:

var mydatestring = "Tue Apr 17 08:59:17 GMT-0500 2007";

var mydate = new Date(mydatestring );

mydate returns an error "Invalid Date".

Does anyone know what the problem is?

[mrhoo]

var D="Tue Apr 17 08:59:17 GMT-0500 2007";
var D = Date.parse(D);
D=new Date(D);


D.toUTCString() returns 'Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:59:17 UTC';

If you, the server or the visitor is not in Atlantic Canada you may want to convert it to UTC when you make a string out of it.