JSON in ECMAScript 5 *does* have a date/time type. A specific ISO 8601 subset: >...

ollysb · on March 2, 2014

    > JSON.parse("{\"date\":\"2014-03-02T16:08:43.444Z\"}")
    Object {date: "2014-03-02T16:08:43.444Z"}

TazeTSchnitzel · on March 2, 2014

Yes, but it is trivial to then convert it to a date with the new Date() constructor.

byroot · on March 2, 2014

But it's not trivial to know that it's a date.

It's ok if you are expecting a Date. But when you want to write generic code that "discover" the properties, then you have to do dirty things, like trying to parse every single strings as a date.

petilon · on March 2, 2014

Close. That's a string that can be parsed as a date as opposed to a date literal.