jQuery UI - Convert jQuery UI Datepicker to UNIX time

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f1nn picture f1nn · Jun 16, 2012 · Viewed 17k times · Source

I'm using jQuery UI datepicker with time plugin. This is how I display time on the page in datepicker itself:

21.06.2012 08:00

I'd like to convert this time to UNIX timestamp before sending to backend. How can I do this? I don't need to dispay UNIX time on the page, I only need to convert before posting. I've tried:

var d = Date.parse(value_of_datepicker);

but had no luck. It seems date should be formated in another way. Also I've tried several build-in datepicker functions, but all of them set date display view. Thanks.

Answer

Smileek picture Smileek · Jun 16, 2012

If you use jQuery timepicker by Trent Richardson, you can do this: $("#your_datepicker").datetimepicker("getDate").getTime() / 1000

http://jsfiddle.net/d6Tky/

Remember that this function may return null if no date has been selected.

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