/** * 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)); }