ISO-8601 Formatted Dates Are Interpreted As UTC
Using new Date() or Date.parse() with a string that represents a date is a great way to create a Date object for a specified date. A variety of formats are accepted by these methods.
But, caution!
There are subtle differences in how those dates will be interpreted. Given any old string that reasonably represents a date, the date will be interpreted using the local time zone, in my case CST.
However, as soon as we use an ISO-8601 compliant date format, ECMAScript 5 specifies that the date ought to be interpreted using the UTC time zone. As you can see, the results are drastic enough to affect what day it comes out to.
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