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Re:Lessons of JSON by Cloven on Monday April 30, 2012 @01:18PM (#3910217)
datetime is a data format problem, not a data structure format problem.
Re:Lessons of JSON by icebraining on Monday April 30, 2012 @07:48PM (#3912191)
Agreed; defining that stuff is up to an higher layer - we just need to make a standard for that too.

JSON-LD, for example, has typed datetimes, links, etc: http://json-ld.org/