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    date.parse returning wrong result

    Hello all,

    I may be doing this the wrong way but I been following the documentation to get the amount of seconds since epoch and I am getting the wrong result.

    Basically I have a string like this

    Code JavaScript:
    var myDateString='2013 02 06 13:05:00';

    or any other in same format so now I do this

    Code JavaScript:
    myDateString=Date.parse(myDateString);

    Which returns Wed Feb 06 2013 13:05:00 GMT+0100,

    Now, this thing I am running inside a jquery function which I am not sure if it is affecting it but I don't get why in the documentation says it will return the amount of seconds and it is returning a completely different thing.
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    Hi,

    It does return the number of milliseconds.
    If I do this:

    Code JavaScript:
    var myDateString='2013 02 06 13:05:00';
    myDateString=Date.parse(myDateString);
    console.log(myDateString);

    Then I see the output as: 1360152300000

    Maybe there is something else in your code that is affecting the result?
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