javascript date conversion

[mudogg80]

In my ajax transaction, the date that I am getting returned is in the format 2008-4-10. I need to convert this string to a number like 1211687999. This would be the similar to the php strtotime() function.

Thanks,
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[Fotiman]

Something like this?

var strDate = "2008-4-10"; // Assuming 4 = month, 10 = day 
var arrDate = strDate.split('-'); 
var myDate = new Date(arrDate[0], arrDate[1], arrDate[2]); 
alert('The date in number of seconds since 1/1/1970: ' + myDate.getTime()/1000);