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MS JSON date serialization and daylight saving time

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We have an Ajax web service hosted in an ASP.NET application. This service accepts a DateTime parameter which, for the purposes of this question, should receive the DateTime equivalent of /Date(1359727200000-0200)/, which is a MS-JSON literal for Feb 1, 2013 9:00 AM in Brazil time. This literal is what the browser sends within the Ajax request.