Javascript equivalent of php's strtotime()?

Question

In PHP, you can easily convert an English textual datetime description into a proper date with strtotime().

Is there anything similar in Javascript?

Answer 1

Yes, it is. And it is supported in all major browser:

var ts = Date.parse("date string");

The only difference is that this function returns milliseconds instead of seconds, so you need to divide the result by 1000.

Check what valid formats can JavaScript parse.