Understanding Date and Time Serialization

Date and time values are serialized as epoch time when passed via Visualforce remoting.

Date, DateTime, and Time objects are returned from a RemoteAction function are serialized as a long integer.

Serialized Datetime Value

[{
    "statusCode": 200,
    "type": "rpc",
    "tid": 8,
    "ref": false,
    "action": "DateTestController",
    "method": "add",
    "result": 1432047600000
}]

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