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@@ -197,12 +197,16 @@ If you want to override this behavior, you'll need to declare the `DateTimeField
         class Meta:
             model = Comment
 
+Note that by default, datetime representations are deteremined by the renderer in use, although this can be explicitly overridden as detailed below.
+
+In the case of JSON this means the default datetime representation uses the [ECMA 262 date time string specification][ecma262].  This is a subset of ISO 8601 which uses millisecond precision, and includes the 'Z' suffix for the UTC timezone, for example: `2013-01-29T12:34:56.123Z`.
+
 **Signature:** `DateTimeField(format=None, input_formats=None)`
 
 * `format` - A string representing the output format.  If not specified, this defaults to `None`, which indicates that python `datetime` objects should be returned by `to_native`.  In this case the datetime encoding will be determined by the renderer. 
 * `input_formats` - A list of strings representing the input formats which may be used to parse the date. If not specified, the `DATETIME_INPUT_FORMATS` setting will be used, which defaults to `['iso-8601']`.
 
-DateTime format strings may either be [python strftime formats][strftime] which explicitly specifiy the format, or the special string `'iso-8601'`, which indicates that [ISO 8601][iso8601] style datetimes should be used. (eg `'2013-01-29T12:34:56.000000'`)
+DateTime format strings may either be [python strftime formats][strftime] which explicitly specifiy the format, or the special string `'iso-8601'`, which indicates that [ISO 8601][iso8601] style datetimes should be used. (eg `'2013-01-29T12:34:56.000000Z'`)
 
 ## DateField
 
@@ -318,5 +322,6 @@ As an example, let's create a field that can be used represent the class name of
 
 [cite]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/forms/api/#django.forms.Form.cleaned_data
 [FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#std:setting-FILE_UPLOAD_HANDLERS
+[ecma262]: http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-15.9.1.15
 [strftime]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior
 [iso8601]: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime