"DD/MM/YYYY - HH:SS" for "milliseconds"

Question

I’m using the datetimepicker Bootstrap and need to convert the result to "milliseconds".

Currently the result comes out: "dd/mm/yyyy - hh:ss" and I need it in "milliseconds".

What’s the best way?

Answer 1

Just use the method getDate, or any of the events, such as changeDate, to recover in format Date, instead of taking the string formatted.

Then just apply the .getTime():

$('#time').datetimepicker().on('changeDate', function (e) {
    // Aqui você tem o resultado em ms sem precisar fazer o parse manual:
    e.date.getTime();
});

See working on JS Fiddle.

Answer 2

var dateString = $('21/09/2014 - 18:22'),
    dateArgs = dateString.match(/\d{2,4}/g),
    year = dateArgs[2],
    month = dateArgs[1],
    day = dateArgs[0],
    hour = dateArgs[3],
    minutes = dateArgs[4];
milliseconds = new Date(year, month, day, hour, minutes).getTime();