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<h1 class="refname">MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime::jsonSerialize</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(mongodb >=1.2.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime::jsonSerialize</span> — <span class="dc-title">Returns a representation that can be converted to JSON</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">final</span> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><a href="language.pseudo-types.html#language.types.mixed" class="type mixed">mixed</a></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime::jsonSerialize</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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Returns data which can be serialized by <span class="function"><a href="function.json-encode.html" class="function">json_encode()</a></span> to
produce an extended JSON representation of the
<a href="class.mongodb-bson-utcdatetime.html" class="classname">MongoDB\BSON\UTCDateTime</a>.
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<blockquote class="note"><p><strong class="note">Note</strong>:
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The output is consistent with the <span class="function"><a href="function.mongodb.bson-tojson.html" class="function">MongoDB\BSON\toJSON()</a></span>
function, which uses the driver-specific legacy extended JSON format. This
does not necessarily match the
<a href="https://github.com/mongodb/specifications/blob/master/source/extended-json.rst#relaxed-extended-json-example" class="link external">» relaxed</a>
or <a href="https://github.com/mongodb/specifications/blob/master/source/extended-json.rst#canonical-extended-json-example" class="link external">» canonical</a>
extended JSON representations used by
<span class="function"><a href="function.mongodb.bson-torelaxedextendedjson.html" class="function">MongoDB\BSON\toRelaxedExtendedJSON()</a></span> and
<span class="function"><a href="function.mongodb.bson-tocanonicalextendedjson.html" class="function">MongoDB\BSON\toCanonicalExtendedJSON()</a></span>, respectively.
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<h3 class="title">Errors/Exceptions</h3>
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<li class="member">Throws <a href="class.mongodb-driver-exception-invalidargumentexception.html" class="classname">MongoDB\Driver\Exception\InvalidArgumentException</a> on argument parsing errors.</li>
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<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"><span class="methodname"><a href="jsonserializable.jsonserialize.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">JsonSerializable::jsonSerialize()</a> - Specify data which should be serialized to JSON</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.json-encode.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">json_encode()</a> - Returns the JSON representation of a value</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.mongodb.bson-tocanonicalextendedjson.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">MongoDB\BSON\toCanonicalExtendedJSON()</a> - Returns the Canonical Extended JSON representation of a BSON value</span></li>
<li class="member"><span class="function"><a href="function.mongodb.bson-torelaxedextendedjson.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">MongoDB\BSON\toRelaxedExtendedJSON()</a> - Returns the Relaxed Extended JSON representation of a BSON value</span></li>
<li class="member"><a href="https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/reference/mongodb-extended-json/" class="link external">» MongoDB Extended JSON</a></li>
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