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HTML
<script src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datejs/1.0/date.min.js"></script>
<p><b>Given the date: 2012-08-27T14:57:00Z (in ISO 8601 format), which is showing a time of 14:57 UTC, why would this be parsed as 14:57 GMT-400 as opposed to 10:57 GMT-400?<br /><br /></b></p>
<p id="alpha"></p>
JavaScript
$('#alpha').html(Date.parse('2012-08-27T14:57:00Z').toString());