/**
* Returns a UNIX timestamp from a textual datetime description. Wrapper for PHP function strtotime().
*
* @param string $dateString Datetime string to be represented as a Unix timestamp
* @param int $userOffset User's offset from GMT (in hours)
* @return integer Unix timestamp
* @access public
* @link http://book.cakephp.org/view/1471/Formatting
*/
function toUnix($dateString, $userOffset = null)
{
return parent::toUnix($dateString, $this->__userOffset($dateString, $userOffset));
}
