Convert String to DateTime

What is the best way to convert a string to DateTime?

The format of 开发者_Go百科the string is dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss.

Thanks a lot, Vincent

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Have you considered Date.parse() (doc here)

var dateParsed:String = "Sat Nov 30 1974";

var milliseconds:Number = Date.parse(dateParsed);
trace(milliseconds); // 155030400000