date_to_api: Convert String or Date to API Input
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This function converts dates from a human-consumable format (e.g. 2008-12-15) to their equivalent time in seconds since the Unit Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC), which is how Pushshift's API expects dates.

1	date_to_api(date, tz = "")

`date`	A date (which can be a string representing a validly formatted date or one of the Date types) to compare to the Unit epoch, granular down to seconds.
`tz`	The timezone of the date to compare, defaults to system's timezone for direct use.

A string representing a time (in seconds) that the api can use to return results.

# convert today
date_to_api(Sys.Date())

# convert a specific date
date_to_api("2018-03-21")

# pass as argument to construct_pushshift_url
construct_pushshift_url(before = date_to_api("2017-01-01"))