DATETIME_FORMAT setting not applied with DjangoJSONEncoder

[DemarsM]

In my settings I have

DATETIME_FORMAT = 'Y-m-d H:i:s'
USE_L10N = False

I am doing:

data = [{'id':x.id, 'name':x.name, 'date_created': x.date_created} for x in instances_list]
jsonData = json.dumps(data, cls=DjangoJSONEncoder)

print jsonData
>>> [{"date_created": "2014-12-09T18:31:46.276Z", "id": 8, "name": "mun_flat"}]

date_created is a datetime field

[Tim Graham]

I believe this is intentional as we want to use a standard format so that data can be deserialized consistently regardless of the format used at the time of encoding.

[Aymeric Augustin]

I agree with Tim.