Hello Max, Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 2:23:12 AM, you wrote:
> ISO8601 is the preferred format because it sorts lexicographically, which > makes it super easy to sort views by date. The JSON.stringify method in > json2.js automatically converts javascript date objects to ISO8601 and Ecmascript >> 1.4 (iirc) natively supports parsing ISO8601 > tl;dr always use ISO8601 Some alternatives that are produced by the Newtonsoft JSON serializer: 1) "LogDate":"\/Date(1234656000000)\/" 2) "LogDate":new Date(1234656000000) 3) "LogDate":"2009-02-15T00:00:00Z" Unfortunately, 1) is actually the default unless ISO serialization is explicitly specified, as in 3). Hence, my little survey about what other weird formats might be out there. :) -- Best regards, Rudi mailto:[email protected]
