title: Accessing a template variable without it passing through it's widget
body: <p>I'm try to ascertain an event time from a date template variable in a modx snippet. However that template variable has a date formatter widget in it which, while nicely formatting the date, doesn't output the time of the event.</p>
  
  <p>I know that modx stores dates in unixtime in it's database, is there an easy way to directly access the unixtime of the event? I'm currently using <code>$modx-&gt;getTemplateVarOutput()</code> calls.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for your help</p>