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I just ran into this problem today and came up with a fix for it.  I was going to start a new post, but here we go.

The problem has to do with the way those types of dates are parsed.  in the parseDate() method there are these 2 lines.

date = String(date).replace(/\\T/g,"T").replace(/\\t/,"T").split(opts.parseRe);
format = format.replace(/\\T/g,"T").replace(/\\t/,"T").split(opts.parseRe);

So what its doing is replacing any "\T" sequences with 'T" and replacing "\t" with just 't', then it splits it with the regular expression.

parseRe : /[Tt\\\/:_;.,\t\s-]/,

The first part of the regular expression defines "T" and "t" as seperators - so any month with a 'T' or 't' in them will be split there.  When you debug it, Oct comes in as "Oc" - which is why it fails.  What I did to fix it was to change the replace commands with characters that do not appear in any month names.

date = String(date).replace(/\\T/g,"#").replace(/\\t/,"%").split(opts.parseRe);
format = format.replace(/\\T/g,"#").replace(/\\t/,"%").split(opts.parseRe);

Also, I changed the regular expression to include the new replacement characters.

parseRe : /[#%\\\/:_;.,\t\s-]/,

That did the trick for me.  Good luck.