how to convert current date to timestamp in javascript code example

Example 1: convert datetime to timestamp javascript

function toTimestamp(strDate){ var datum = Date.parse(strDate); return datum/1000;}

Example 2: date to timestamp javascript

function toTimestamp(strDate){
   var datum = Date.parse(strDate);
   return datum/1000;
}
alert(toTimestamp('02/13/2009 23:31:30'));