How to convert string to timestamp?

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How to convert string to timestamp ? For example, I have string:

2012-06-10T10:00:00+04:00

why can't you just use the Date object? Node.js is Javascript after all... — thescientist, Jun 10 '12 at 10:28

score 8 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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Use Parse method of Date object as described here.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

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answered Jun 10 '12 at 10:31

Behnam Esmaili

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '14 at 09:47

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Try moment package for all date parsing it's awesome package.

answered Dec 19 '14 at 09:47

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '12 at 11:04

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If you are asking this for converting your date to database-specific formats, you can use a very nice library moment.js for various conversions

answered Jun 10 '12 at 11:04

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 05 '16 at 22:29

I tried following in AWS node js lambda function (so mostly like js) and worked fine.

  var arrivalTime='2012-06-10T10:00:00+04:00';
  var d = new Date(arrivalTime);
  console.log('This is -> d ' + d.toString());

For node js lambda the only issue is it always returns UTC so conversion is needed but for js (i.e. on client side) it would return in local time I'd think.

How to convert string to timestamp?

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