content: sub main()
      ts = createObject("roTimespan")
  
      print "can return seconds from date until now: " ts.getsecondstoiso8601date("2030-11-10T05:47:52Z")
      print "can return 2077252342 for date that can't be parsed: " ts.getsecondstoiso8601date("14 Jun 2017 00:00:00 PDT")
  end sub
  