Chrome and FF are currently the only browsers that can parse ISO 8601. Safari doesn't parse it, and I'd be surprised if IE did.

Additionally, Date#toISOString is not supported by IE, so we can't have it in TzDate, which should, as a good fake, be a the lowest common denominator of Date implementations. We should use angular.Date.toString in the test instead of modifying the mock.

The implementation with all the if tests and weird branching is a bit hacky. I'll look at this code tomorrow and see if I can come up with a better solution. Of course you are welcome to offer a better implementation.

Lastly, I think I'd rather limit the supported input to ISO 8601 (by using angular.String.toDate) only and not just any string. This should eliminate browser inconsistencies when it comes to parsing.

I'll have a fresh look at this tomorrow, but feel free to discuss or work on this issue further.

I cooked up a fix here: #129

Thanks for the feedback, Igor. I didn't realize there already is a parser for this format. I agree that it doesn't need to handle other formats that Date.parse might.

I'm closing this since your fix seems like the way to go.