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

Another option as of 2017 is to use Date.parse(). MDN's documentation points out, however, that it is unreliable prior to ES5.

var date = new Date(); // today's date and time in ISO format
var myDate = Date.parse(date);

See the fiddle for more details.