How do you convert a JavaScript date to UTC?

Question

Suppose a user of your website enters a date range.

2009-1-1 to 2009-1-3

You need to send this date to a server for some processing, but th

Answer 1

date = '2012-07-28'; stringdate = new Date(date).toISOString();

ought to work in most newer browsers. it returns 2012-07-28T00:00:00.000Z on Firefox 6.0