I think passing a string to the constructor would do the same thing since `Date.parse` gets used internally.

```javascript
new Date("2013-11-04T00:30:00Z")
> Sun Nov 03 2013 19:30:00 GMT-0500 (EST)
new Date(Date.parse("2013-11-04T00:30:00Z"))
> Sun Nov 03 2013 19:30:00 GMT-0500 (EST)
``` 

Reference: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date