how do I convert date to milliseconds

Question

I have a string the represents a time "2014-07-03T11:47:00"

I would like to covert this time to milliseconds and I think it should look something like the following.

var myTime = Date.parse("2014-07-03T11:47:00");

var myTimeMs = myTime.getTime();

Any suggestions about how to get the value in milliseconds on any browser?

[Hmmm...](http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_getmilliseconds.asp). — Robert Harvey, Jul 09 '14 at 00:11
@RobertHarvey I think the OP wants the timestamp; the count of milliseconds since the epoch. — Pointy, Jul 09 '14 at 00:13
[Hmmm....](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9011758/calculating-milliseconds-from-epoch) — Robert Harvey, Jul 09 '14 at 00:13
That date format (ISO 8601) is always going to be interpreted as a UTC time. Internet Explorer versions before IE9 cannot deal with that format. — Pointy, Jul 09 '14 at 00:16

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 09 '14 at 00:13

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Date.parse returns the time in milliseconds

answered Jul 09 '14 at 00:13

Craig

But *Date.parse* is not generally consistent across browsers in use, so should not be relied upon to convert a string to a Date. – RobG Jul 09 '14 at 00:36
RobG, any suggestions on how to do it in a reliable way across browsers? – user3648646 Jul 09 '14 at 00:43

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