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<p>Date.parse(string) returns milliseconds.</p>
<p>You can use the return value to convert the string to a date object:</p>
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<script>
var msec = Date.parse("March 21, 2012");
var d = new Date(msec);
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = d;
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