Cannot capture dates in "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy" format

Hi,

I am getting the date from the report designer as "Fri Dec 11 12:00:31 CET 2015" that then will be processed by a transformation.

The problem is that in the transformation I cannot capture the parameter's value. This one is supposed to be an easy one as the format is well known "EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy" But I am always getting the following error:

2015/12/11 12:02:42 - Get Variables.0 - ERROR (version 6.0.0.0-353, build 1 from 2015-10-07 13.27.43 by buildguy) : Unexpected error
2015/12/11 12:02:42 - Get Variables.0 - ERROR (version 6.0.0.0-353, build 1 from 2015-10-07 13.27.43 by buildguy) : org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleValueException:
2015/12/11 12:02:42 - Get Variables.0 - end_date String(28) : couldn't convert string [Fri Dec 11 12:00:31 CET 2015] to a date using format [EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy] on offset location 0
2015/12/11 12:02:42 - Get Variables.0 - Fri Dec 11 12:00:31 CET 2015

Any Idea?

Thanks for your time