How to Convert .NET DateTime to JSON

Question

My WCF webservice is returning C# DateTime objects as JSON like this,

\"/Date(1293793200000+1300)/\"

I have found this,

Converting .NET DateTime to JSON<

Answer 1

You can ignore the time zone offset - the number of milliseconds is always relative to UTC (see the "DateTime wire format" section at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb412170.aspx). The offset mostly indicates that the original DateTime value was of DateTimeKind.Local, but the serialized milliseconds since the epoch is always relative to GMT.