title: Converting "long form" datetime string into javascript date object
body: <p>i have a current time webservice that returns a JSON object like so</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "tz": "America\/Chicago", 
    "hour": 15, 
    "datetime": "Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:46:58 -0500", 
    "second": 58, 
    "error": false, 
    "minute": 46
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there an easy whay to convert the long-form datetime string</p>
  
  <pre><code>"datetime": "Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:46:58 -0500" 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>into a javascript Date object? (apart from using regex to parse the string)</p>