Heya heres a (hopefully) easy one,

how can I convert this DATETIME value: 

```
2014-01-16 12:00:00

```

to an unix timestamp via JavaScript or JQuery?

In PHP It is easy but in JavaScript it seems hard. I found out that Date.parse() or new Date() provide me that but this only helps with timestamps containing this other format with day of the week.

Is there a way to convert this 'numeric' variant aswell?

Thanks in advance~