Index: lib/Foswiki/Plugins/TablePlugin/Core.pm
===================================================================
--- lib/Foswiki/Plugins/TablePlugin/Core.pm     (revision 5223)
+++ lib/Foswiki/Plugins/TablePlugin/Core.pm     (working copy)
@@ -23,8 +23,9 @@

 package Foswiki::Plugins::TablePlugin::Core;

-use Foswiki::Time;
-use Error qw(:try);
+#use Foswiki::Time;
+#use Error qw(:try);
+use Time::ParseDate;

 use vars qw( $translationToken
   $insideTABLE $tableCount @curTable $sortCol $maxSortCols $requestedTable $up
@@ -516,11 +517,12 @@
         $num = $text;
     }
     else {
-        try {
-            $date = Foswiki::Time::parseTime($text);
-        } catch Error::Simple with {
-            # nope, wasn't a date
-        };
+        #try {
+        #    $date = Foswiki::Time::parseTime($text);
+        #} catch Error::Simple with {
+        #    # nope, wasn't a date
+        #};
+        $date = parsedate( $text );
     }

     unless ($date) {