Obtain milliseconds from date javascript

Question

I have a date format like this 2011-07-29T08:18:39

I want to convert this date intro milliseconds I try

var myDate = \'2011-07-29T08:18:39\';    
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Answer 1

T.J. was correct; my original solution failed in IE9 and Safari. This will do it, and works in all major browsers.

var myDate = '2011-07-29T08:18:39';    

function parseDate(dateString){
    var time = Date.parse(dateString);
    if(!time){
        time = Date.parse(dateString.replace("T"," "));
        if(!time){
            bound = dateString.indexOf('T');
            var dateData = dateString.slice(0, bound).split('-');
            var timeData = dateString.slice(bound+1, -1).split(':');

            time = Date.UTC(dateData[0],dateData[1]-1,dateData[2],timeData[0],timeData[1],timeData[2]);
        }
    }
    return time;
}

var milliseconds = parseDate(myDate);