Javascript Convert Date Time string to Epoch
datetime, epoch, javascript
Solution
JavaScript dates are internally stored as milliseconds since epoch. You just need to convert it to a number, e.g. with the unary `+` operator, to get them. Or you can use the `.getTime` method.
The harder will be parsing your date string. You likely will use a regex to extract the values from your string and pass them into `Date.UTC`:
var parts = datestring.match(/(\d{2})\/(\d{2})\/(\d{4}) (\d{2}):(\d{2})/);
return Date.UTC(+parts[3], parts[2]-1, +parts[1], +parts[4], +parts[5]);
This will yield `1354604400000 ms` for your example date.
Problem
so I give up...been trying to do this all day; I have a string that supplies a date and time in the format `dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm` (`04/12/2012 07:00`). I need to turn that into an Epoch date so I can do some calculations upon it. I cannot modify the format in which the date time is sent to me. JavaScript or jQuery is fine.