How do I format a Microsoft JSON date?

Question

I\'m taking my first crack at Ajax with jQuery. I\'m getting my data onto my page, but I\'m having some trouble with the JSON data that is returned for Date data types. Basi

Answer 1

I get the date like this:

"/Date(1276290000000+0300)/"

In some examples the date is in slightly different formats:

"/Date(12762900000000300)/"
"Date(1276290000000-0300)"

etc.

So I came up with the following RegExp:

/\/+Date\(([\d+]+)\)\/+/

and the final code is:

var myDate = new Date(parseInt(jsonWcfDate.replace(/\/+Date\(([\d+-]+)\)\/+/, '$1')));

Hope it helps.

Update: I found this link from Microsoft: How do I Serialize Dates with JSON?

This seems like the one we are all looking for.