[javascript] Converting Date and Time To Unix Timestamp

I'm displaying the date and time like this

24-Nov-2009 17:57:35

I'd like to convert it to a unix timestamp so I can manipulate it easily. I'd need to use regex to match each part of the string then work out the unix timestamp from that.

I'm awful with regex but I came up with this. Please suggest improvements ^.^

/((\d){2}+)-((Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)+)-((\d){4}+) ((\d){2}+):((\d){2}+):((\d){2}+)/gi

How can I do this?

You can use Date.getTime() function, or the Date object itself which when divided returns the time in milliseconds.

var d = new Date();

d/1000
> 1510329641.84

d.getTime()/1000
> 1510329641.84

Using a date picker to get date and a time picker I get two variables, this is how I put them together in unixtime format and then pull them out...

let datetime = oDdate+' '+oDtime;
let unixtime = Date.parse(datetime)/1000;
console.log('unixtime:',unixtime);

to prove it:

let milliseconds = unixtime * 1000;
dateObject = new Date(milliseconds);
console.log('dateObject:',dateObject);

enjoy!

Seems like getTime is not function on above answer.

Date.parse(currentDate)/1000