"dtSomeTimestamp": "2011-08-24T18:02:00.000Z" Is that a date and time, or a string that just happens to look like a date and time? JSON doesn't know the answe

"dtSomeTimestamp": "2011-08-24T18:02:00.000Z" Is that a date and time, or a string that just happens to look like a date and time? JSON doesn't know the answer, so a convention outside of JSON will need to decide.