Fixed bug in parsing dates.

Turns out that Date.parse is not exactly cross browser compatible, and was causing error spikes.

Quick Copy n Paste job from Stackoverflow sorted it.

Here is a graph of the error spikes on Football server...
![football_errors](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/76709/152569/ace14bce-75cb-11e2-9a9c-f8eb8a628721.png)