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

"/Date(1293793200000+1300)/"

I have found this,

Converting .NET DateTime to JSON

Which suggests this method for converting it using javascript,

var d = new Date();
d.setTime(1245398693390);
document.write(d);

The difference is that my date format has the +1300 in it, which seems to be my timezone, as I am +13 hours from GMT.

Can I somehow modify my service to adjust the value to an absolute number of milliseconds from epoch or can the javascript be modified?

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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.

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You can convert the DateTime object in .NET to a string and just serialize the string. That's what I did. See Proper way to format date from database using javascript/jquery

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