convert iso date to milliseconds in javascript

Question

Can I convert iso date to milliseconds? for example I want to convert this iso

2012-02-10T13:19:11+0000

to milliseconds.

Because I

Answer 1

A shorthand of the previous solutions is

var myDate = +new Date("2012-02-10T13:19:11+0000");

It does an on the fly type conversion and directly outputs date in millisecond format.

Another way is also using parse method of Date util which only outputs EPOCH time in milliseconds.

var myDate = Date.parse("2012-02-10T13:19:11+0000");