Parsed string to date rendered inconsistently by toString() in some browsers

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I'm parsing dates from "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss-05:00" format and then
toString()'ing them.

I'm being told that some folks were seeing strange dates as a result, so I
fired up Parallels and
MSIE6 and sure enough, they we weird. Hours off.

I checked the system time and *it* was way off. Set it. Quit and re-opened MSIE
and all was well.

So I can envision a way to say "hey, buddy, your clock's off, so these dates
might be too," but
what's bugging me is why is it that a specific date being read in and then
printed out is affected
by the system's time settings?

Is there a way to override this? Maybe some kind of Date.setBaseTime() or
Date.setTimeZone()?

You may or may not be able to see this in action here...
http://www.redeemerbaptist.org/

...using a WordPress plug-in I'm attempting to make here...
http://code.google.com/p/wp-gcal-rss/

Whining aside, thanks for a great tool!

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by `redeemer...@gmail.com` on 4 Jun 2008 at 1:20