Passing datetime with http request

Question

I need to pass a date time (in 2012-09-23 21:00:00 format generated by dropdown boxes and converted to that format with javascript (client side that is)) with GET method to a php file which then gets mysql records sorted by that time.

What is the best way of passing this date? The options I consider are:

making separate get parameters for each piece of info (e.g ?startYear=2012&startMonth=09&startDay=23&startHour=....) this could work, but what if I add more different filters. It will be too busy there. Or it's not an issue?
Passing timestamp. I consider this to be the best option. However when I convert the date to timestamp it gives me incorrect result. The function will be below.
Passing in 2012-09-23 21:00:00 format by pre-processing with encodeURIComponent

Any suggestions?

Date to timestamp conversion (related to point 2):

function getTimestamp(str) {
  var d = str.match(/\d+/g); // extract date parts
  return +new Date(d[0], d[1] - 1, d[2], d[3], d[4], d[5]); // build Date object
}

See [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4048204/javascript-equivalent-of-phps-strtotime) for solution to changing date string to timestamp in javascript :) — Cassie Smith, Apr 11 '12 at 22:50
Why are you running encodeURIComponent first? The following should work fine: `new Date('2012-09-23 21:00:00');` — circusbred, Apr 11 '12 at 22:55

Passing datetime with http request

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