title: Converting Date and Time To Unix Timestamp
body: <p>I'm displaying the date and time like this</p>
  
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    <p>24-Nov-2009 17:57:35</p>
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  <p>I'd like to convert it to a unix timestamp so I can manipulate it easily. I'd need to use regex to match each part of the string then work out the unix timestamp from that.</p>
  
  <p>I'm awful with regex but I came up with this. Please suggest improvements ^.^</p>
  
  <pre><code>/((\d){2}+)-((Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)+)-((\d){4}+) ((\d){2}+):((\d){2}+):((\d){2}+)/gi
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  <p>How can I do this?</p>