jquery datepicker value to UTC timestamp

Question

I am using jquery datetime picker and when user selects a value i need user selection to converted into utc timestamp so i that pass that to php webservice using ajax.

Datepicker I am using shows its value in 2014/09/01 11:57 format. Please let me know how i can convert this into utc timestamp in javascript.

Before jquery datetime picker I used to have html5 datetime input elements and i was reading there values using jquery and converting them into UTC timestamp and for that i wrote custom functions. Client asked to use jquery datetime picker and now we are back with this UTC thing.

possible duplicate of [How do you convert a JavaScript date to UTC?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/948532/how-do-you-convert-a-javascript-date-to-utc) — emerson.marini, Sep 10 '14 at 16:16

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 15 '14 at 14:49

Date.parse("2014/09/01 11:57");

or

new Date("2014/09/01 11:57");

This will create a Date object. You can return the UTC timestamp with the Date object's getTime() or valueOf() functions.

There's a lot of excellent Javascript documentation at the Mozilla Developer Network. The docs for the Date object are here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date

jquery datepicker value to UTC timestamp

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