In my MVC4 project I have a controller action as follows:
public ActionResult GetJson()
{
var serialized = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(DateTime.Now);
return Json(DateTime.Now, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
The response to the browser is in the old ASP.NET format:
"/Date(1358987787691)/"
However, I know that MVC4 uses json.net by default, and that json.net uses ISO8601 format for dates.
In the code above, the serialized variable contains (what I want):
"\"2013-01-24T13:39:12.7182079+13:00\""
Why is return Json(DateTime.Now) not (seemingly) using json.net?
I have also tried putting the following line in my global.asx:
var json = GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter;
json.UseDataContractJsonSerializer = false;
but to no avail.
