JavaScript: Parse a long date into a shorter one

I\’m using AJAX to pull in an RSS feed and show a list of items. However the date that comes back is super long and needs to be shorter.

e.g. Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:53:35 PDT to become just 11 Jun 2012 17:53

Is it possible to do this with javascript?

The code looks like this currently:

for(var i = 0; i < feed.items.length && i < 5; i++) {

                            var item = feed.items[i];

                            html += \'<li>\'
                            + item.updated;

                            html += \' | <span class=\"title\">\'
                            + \'<a href=\"\'
                            + item.link
                            + \'\">\'
                            + item.title
                            + \'</a>\'
                            + \'</span></li>\';

                        }

So I need to do something to that item.updated object.

I\’ve done a quick search on parsing dates, but not found anything I can make use of.

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