parse :: String -> String -> Date

Returns a new date by parsing the datestring based on the given format.

const date = D.parse('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss', '2015-01-01 12:13:14') // Thu Jan 01 2015 12:13:14 GMT+0000 (GMT)
const date = D.parse('MMM Do, YYYY', 'January 1st, 2015') // Thu Jan 01 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT)

Parse supports the following tokens: