transform date to timestamp javascript code example
Example 1: convert date to timestamp javascript
// human date --> timestamp
function toTimestamp(strDate){
var datum = Date.parse(strDate);
return datum/1000;
}
alert(toTimestamp('02/13/2009 23:31:30'));
Example 2: convert timestamp to date js
var date = new Date("2016-07-27T07:45:00Z");
However, you can run into trouble when you do not provide the timezone explicitly!