title: Javascript Convert Date Time string to Epoch
body: <p>so I give up...been trying to do this all day;</p>
  
  <p>I have a string that supplies a date and time in the format <code>dd/MM/yyyy hh:mm</code> (<code>04/12/2012 07:00</code>).</p>
  
  <p>I need to turn that into an Epoch date so I can do some calculations upon it. I cannot modify the format in which the date time is sent to me.</p>
  
  <p>JavaScript or jQuery is fine.</p>