If you only need it once, it's overkill to load a plugin.
For a date "dd/mm/yyyy", this works for me:
new Date(d.date.substring(6, 10),d.date.substring(3, 5)-1,d.date.substring(0, 2));
Just invert month and day for mm/dd/yyyy, the syntax is
new Date(y,m,d)