Sure. Or you can use one of the ISO 8601 date formats encoded as a string. Or the special string "\/Date(...)\/" which some JSON libraries have chosen. The prob

Sure. Or you can use one of the ISO 8601 date formats encoded as a string. Or the special string "\/Date(...)\/" which some JSON libraries have chosen. The problem is not to encode a date, the problem is there is no agreed way to do it, so you can't be sure that the other end actually receive a date.