Re-format a date-string?

When I use this line with "Mail":
set theReceivedTime to date received of theMessage as date
I get this:
onsdag 11 februari 2009 19.24.16
I need this to be in standard datetime-format, like this:
2009-02-11 19:24:16
What is the easiest way to do this?
Are there any built in functions to handle this, or do I (usch :)) need to create this by my self?

Super!
Just one thing
This gives me this response:
2009-02-12 19:0:0
It should be ... 19:00:00.
It's striking out one "0" in the minute and second...
And I'm guessing that would happend 01:00:00 thru 09:00:00 as well.?
I tried to understand your code, but came out blanc

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>I am working with an XSLT fragment in dreamweaver and all
seems to be
>working
> fine except when it comes to the date field in the XML
it is transforming.
> It
> looks like dreamweaver has no options in it for
formatting a date. Looking
> on
> the web it appears that XSLT doesn't have a function for
that except if
> you are
> running XSLT 2.0??
Correct.
> my XML looks like
> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:00:00
+0100</pubDate>
> Can anyone help me just show only this part, "Wed, 04
Apr 2007"
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