title: Best way to compare dates for most recent in JS?
body: <p>I'm talking about ones encoded in the format in which the twitter API returns its dates, like...</p>
  
  <p><code>"Tue Jan 12 21:33:28 +0000 2010"</code></p>
  
  <p>The best thing I thought of was to try to slice it up with regexes to become something more like...</p>
  
  <p><code>20100112213328</code>,</p>
  
  <p>but there's <em>got</em> to be a better way.</p>