title: specific date string format
body: <p>I am getting dates as strings from a web service.<br>
  They are in the following string format.<br>
  <code>"2016-04-12 12:18:11.000 EDT"</code><br>
  The documentation is not very good but I guess this is some standard date format.<br>
  Do you recognize this format?<br>
  How can I most easily parse it into a <code>Date</code>?  </p>