How to convert Date to timestamp using MomentJS?

javascript, momentjs

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You said:

I used MomentJS to convert local date to UTC date using the following way: `moment("2016-10-11 18:06:03").tz("Europe/Paris").format()`

That doesn't do that. That converts a local value to Paris time, and emits it as a string in ISO8601 format.

Now I need timestamp from the output value using MomentJS.

That's a different question, and wouldn't involve the output of the above because:

You can't get a timestamp from the output string, you'd get it from a `moment` object. You could parse that string, but that would be silly since you already had a `moment` object earlier.

Timestamps are UTC based, so time zone conversion is irrelevant. You'd get the same timestamp if you didn't convert at all.

You can get a string with a timestamp using `.format('X')` or `.format('x')` depending on which precision you want. But it's much cleaner to just get the numerical timestamp using `.valueOf()` or `.unix()`, again depending on precision.

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