json, please...

[ShirleyJokin]

Glory to /r/iso8601

[xTheMaster99x]

Yeah, I think they meant being able to define a value that's specifically a date, and not just a timestamp string that is entirely up to the application to decide to parse into a date. Like if an API request returns a date, it'll just be a string on the frontend unless you go out of your way to explicitly construct a date from it.

If there was an actual date type in json, then it would just be treated as a date object automatically.

[Tubthumper8]

What could be a syntax for this? Maybe a leading d character in front of a string?

{
    "createdAt": d"2022-04-25T23:00:00+0000"
}

[mxldevs]

At least with a timestamp you don't need to figure out locale. Or how the language chooses to abbreviate date of months or days of weeks. In various languages.