[jQuery] TableSorter 2.0.3 > parser "usLongDate" doesn't like Timezone added...

[jQuery] TableSorter 2.0.3 > parser "usLongDate" doesn't like Timezone added...


The native TableSorter 'usLongDate' fails if the timezone is added
like this:
Nov 12, 2008 1:25 PM (PST)
Nov 11, 2008 2:25 PM (EST)
So I chopped the timezone off with my own custom parser like in the
below. But once I add my custom parser, the native parser
'usLongDate' doesn't run!
Can I run two parsers over the same data?
$.tablesorter.addParser({
    // set a unique id
    id: 'strip_tz',
    is: function(s) {
            // return false so this parser is not auto detected
            return false;
    },
    format: function(s) {
            // format your data for normalization
            return s.substring(0,(s.length-5));
    },
    // set type, either numeric or text
    type: 'numeric'
});
Of course I could just use ISO datatime format like
"2008-11-12T21:21:42+00:00" but humans have a hard time reading
that. ;-)
Thanks!
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