In PHP, you can easily convert an English textual datetime description into a proper date with strtotime()
.
Is there anything similar in Javascript?
I found this article and tried the tutorial. Basically, you can use the date constructor to parse a date, then write get the seconds from the getTime()
method
var d=new Date("October 13, 1975 11:13:00");
document.write(d.getTime() + " milliseconds since 1970/01/01");
Does this work?