Question

I am developing some REST API’s which are returning data in json format. ASP.net will serialize the data and the output will be something like this.

[
  {

  "DueDate": "/Date(1338316200000+0530)/",
  "User": "XYZ"

 }
]

Here I want to provide the date in a standard format(like C# datetime format). Even though there are many ways to format it in the javascript, I am not considering that. Is there any way to generate standard date format using json so that one who is accessing my API can use them without any formatting. Thanks..

Answer 1

That is how .Net serializes a DateTime obj, it’s the safest way for .Net to know you want to deserialize into a DateTime object rather than keep the string representation.

Why not just return a string formatted how you want it, or how your users expect.