Actually, this parses ISO 8601 formatted strings: `yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss`, but the timezone portion is optional.

You can actually see the code for this from a browser's console if you call the function:
![image](https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/873785/1898068/b2c36da6-7c0a-11e3-919e-7028f874c550.png)