how can I change the counting time to unix time stamp?

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I want to get the expiration time of a product of webpage and change it to unix time using javascript date methods....

  var expiration = document.querySelector('span#bigDealTimer1');
  //with this selector I can get the time-counter.

  expiration = expiration && expiration.innerText;

how can i change the expiration time in the span to unix Time ? (time is decreasing to zero)

Does this answer your question? [Convert normal date to unix timestamp](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11893083/convert-normal-date-to-unix-timestamp) — Natrium, Jan 02 '20 at 07:54

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 02 '20 at 07:53

Although I don't know what kind of format the date/time will be in, there's the standard Date library you can use for parsing your string date value to a UNIX timestamp.

const unixTimeZero = Date.parse('01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT');

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

how can I change the counting time to unix time stamp?

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