[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Date format in JSON

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[quote user="Jean-Christophe Cardot"]There is one and only one date format in the JSON format: yyyy-mm-dd.[/quote] This is not true. The official JSON standards (see JSON ) do not specify any standard format for date/datetime related data. Most people go with yyyy-mm-dd because that follows the ISO 8601 standards for date formatting because filling the gap in the JSON standards with another, well documented and pre-existing standard just makes a lot of sense. But that's decided by platform and implementation of the JSON provider/consumer, and not something that's guaranteed at all.

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