title: javascript date format conversion (full text date to unix time stamp)
body: <p>I have a date in the following format<br>
  <code>Fri Mar 16 2012 05:53:18 GMT 0200 (GTB Standard Time)</code></p>
  
  <p>And I want to convert it into a unix timestamp.</p>
  
  <p>Until now I manually split the string by <code>spaces</code> and then I am giving it as an input to a <code>Date</code> object, in order to get <code>milliseconds</code> in a latter step.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any easiest way?
  (I am trying to avoid jQuery plug-ins and do it using vanila javascript)</p>