title: Creating an ISODate for MongoDB with PHP
body: <p>I did a lot of preprocessing with Python, and the <a href="http://api.mongodb.org/python/1.9%2B/index.html" rel="nofollow">pymongo</a> driver uses ISODate for it's native date / time translation. Now PHP uses the <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.mongodate.php" rel="nofollow">MongoDate</a> class which give <code>{"sec":1296536400,"usec":0}</code> as my "date". Is there anyway to force PHP to use an ISODate or vice-versa with Python (and pymongo)? I need compatible dates but the native formats don't seem to want to play nice.</p>