Perl Folks,
I need to call a JSON web service with dates.  The web service uses this format 
which I hear is a fairly well used JSON date format.  (Note: ISO 8601 is now 
the preferred format).

 '/Date(1392233750000-0600)/'

What I want to do is to pass DateTime objects to and from the Perl API and have 
it seamlessly translate to and from this milliseconds from epoch format.

Issues: 
  - I don't see a DateTime formatter that supports this format.  Maybe, I just 
don't know the name of the format.  But, I was expecting to find 
DateTime::Format::JSON::Epoch or something similar.
  - I did not see an easy way to use JSON::PP mapping to map objects to strings 
and back.
I'd hate to have to go through every value searching for strings that matched 
/Date()/ and convert them to DateTime format.  It's would be easy on the send 
side as I already have hooks in my code.
Has anyone does this kind of thing before?  I've searched but found nothing on 
the 'Net related to Perl.

Thanks,
Mike
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