function convert_date(news_string) {

        var news_string_parsed = news_string.substring(3, 6);
        var day_string_result = news_string.substring(0, 2);
        var month_string_result;
        var year_string_result;
        var string_result;

        switch (news_string_parsed) {
         case 'Jan': month_string_result = 'january'; break;
         case 'Feb': month_string_result = 'february'; break;
         case 'Mar': month_string_result = 'march'; break;
         case 'Apr': month_string_result = 'april'; break;
         case 'May': month_string_result = 'may'; break;
         case 'Jun': month_string_result = 'june'; break;
         case 'Jul': month_string_result = 'july'; break;
         case 'Aug': month_string_result = 'august'; break;
         case 'Sep': month_string_result = 'september'; break;
         case 'Oct': month_string_result = 'october'; break;
         case 'Nov': month_string_result = 'november'; break;
         case 'Dec': month_string_result = 'december'; break;
        }

        if (day_string_result.substring(0, 1)=="0") {day_string_result = day_string_result.substring(1, 2);}

        var year_string = news_string.substring(news_string.length-2, news_string.length);
        var dateObj = new Date;
        var current_year = dateObj.getYear()-100;
        year_string_result = "20"+year_string;
        string_result = day_string_result+" "+month_string_result+" "+year_string_result;

        document.write(string_result);
        }