When I ran into this problem, I ended up switching over to using the "datejs" library, located here "http://code.google.com/p/datejs/downloads/list http://code.

When I ran into this problem, I ended up switching over to using the "datejs" library, located here "http://code.google.com/p/datejs/downloads/list http://code.google.com/p/datejs/downloads/list. Date.js seems to handle Daylight Savings Time just fine; I don't know if it deals with Leap Seconds.