Protractor: testing date text with various formats

HTML:

<div id="date"> {{date | date : 'EEE MMM d HH:mm'}} </div>

It displays on the screen at "Tue Sep 30 10:45"

Test:

expect(element(by.id('date')).getText()).toBe("Tue Sept 30 10:45");

Fails with:

Expected 'Sep 30, 2014 10:45' to be 'Tue Sep 30 10:45'.