code: function parseTwitterDate (str) {
      var v = str.split(' ');
      return new Date(Date.parse(v[1] + ' ' + v[2] + ', ' + v[5] + ' ' + v[3] + ' UTC'));
    }
docs: Per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3243546/problem-with-javascript-date-function-in-ie-7-returns-nan Without this IE bombs