Discrepancy in JSON.stringify of date values in different browsers

Question

I have this code in an HTML page:

alert(JSON.stringify(new Date()));

I\'m including the latest json2.js (2009-09-29 version) in my page to

Answer 1

I got this working adding the following javascript:

// Added to make dates format to ISO8601
Date.prototype.toJSON = function (key) {
    function f(n) {
        // Format integers to have at least two digits.
        return n < 10 ? '0' + n : n;
    }

    return this.getUTCFullYear()   + '-' +
         f(this.getUTCMonth() + 1) + '-' +
         f(this.getUTCDate())      + 'T' +
         f(this.getUTCHours())     + ':' +
         f(this.getUTCMinutes())   + ':' +
         f(this.getUTCSeconds())   + '.' +
         f(this.getUTCMilliseconds())   + 'Z';
};

I'm sure this probably slows down the serialization, but it seems to make things consistent across browsers.