use the following code
var date = new Date(parseInt(jsonDateString.substr(6)));
To pass the date back to the ASP.NET server to deserialize, note that JSON.stringify will escape the slashes in the date values causing parse error in the server. To correct this, use the code below
(shttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/11852432/using-net-javascriptserializer-deserialize-with-datetime-from-client)
function customJSONstringify(obj) { return JSON.stringify(obj).replace(//Date/g, "/Date").replace(/)//g, ")/") }