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HTML
<script src="https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/raw/master/json2.js"></script>
JavaScript
// JSON received from server is in string format
var s = '1293034567877';
var jsonString = '{"date": 1293034567877}';
//use JSON2 or some JS library to parse the string
var jsonObject = JSON.parse( jsonString );
//now you have your date!
alert( new Date(jsonObject.date));