TO_DATE function time zone parse error

Question

I have a problem when trying to parse a date in Oracle:

TO_DATE(\'Fri May 16 14:30:57 EDT 2014\', \'DY MON DD HH24:MI:SS TZD YYYY\')

Answer 1

This one works:

select TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ('May 16 14:30;57 EDT 2014', 'MON DD HH24:MI:SS TZD YYYY')
from dual;