How do you convert a JavaScript date to UTC?

Question

Suppose a user of your website enters a date range.

2009-1-1 to 2009-1-3

You need to send this date to a server for some processing, but th

Answer 1

I just discovered that the 1.2.3 version of Steven Levithan's date.format.js does just what I want. It allows you to supply a format string for a JavaScript date and will convert from local time to UTC. Here's the code I'm using now:

// JavaScript dates don't like hyphens!    
var rectifiedDateText = dateText.replace(/-/g, "/");
var d = new Date(rectifiedDateText);

// Using a predefined mask from date.format.js.
var convertedDate = dateFormat(d, 'isoUtcDateTime');