I’ve recently had to parse dates and it turned out that Flex is not very good at it. According to specs, Date.parse() only handle following formats: MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS TZD HH:MM:SS TZD Day Mon/DD/YYYY Mon DD YYYY HH:MM:SS TZD Day Mon DD HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY Day DD Mon HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY Mon/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS TZD YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS [...]