Use this to convert a texual date / time representation into a unix timestamp.
As a neat side effect, you can also use this form to tell you the day of the week, of dates in history, or dates in the future.

This tool uses PHP's strtotime( ) function.

Some of the formats you can use:

• 1972-09-24  # ISO 8601.
• 72-9-24     # Assume 19xx for 69 through 99, 20xx for 00 through 68.
• 72-09-24    # Leading zeros are ignored.
• 9/24/72     # Common U.S. writing.
• 24 September 1972
• 24 Sept 72  # September has a special abbreviation.
• 24 Sep 72   # Three-letter abbreviations always allowed.
• Sep 24, 1972
• 24-sep-72
• 24sep72
• day month year
• day month
• month day year
• day-month-year
• 20:02:00.000000
• 20:02
• 8:02pm
• 20:02-0500  # In EST (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).
• 1 year
• 1 year ago
• 3 years
• 2 days
• now
• yyyymmdd