diff --git a/bower.json b/bower.json
index 6788478..3a99b00 100644
--- a/bower.json
+++ b/bower.json
@@ -27,7 +27,10 @@
     "Gruntfile.js"
   ],
   "devDependencies": {
-    "angular": "~1.x",
-    "angular-mocks": "~1.2.1"
+    "angular": "~1.4.0",
+    "angular-mocks": "~1.4.0"
+  },
+  "resolutions": {
+    "angular": "1.4.3"
   }
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index caeef92..4ccfbae 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.8.0",
     "grunt-contrib-uglify": "*",
     "grunt-karma": "latest",
-    "karma": "~0.12.16",
+    "karma": "~0.13.0",
     "karma-jasmine": "~0.1.5",
     "karma-coverage": "^0.2.6",
     "karma-phantomjs-launcher": "~0.1.4",
diff --git a/src/angular-local-storage.js b/src/angular-local-storage.js
index 0e3048e..6f0145c 100644
--- a/src/angular-local-storage.js
+++ b/src/angular-local-storage.js
@@ -1,5 +1,27 @@
 var angularLocalStorage = angular.module('LocalStorageModule', []);
 
+angularLocalStorage.service('jsonDateParser', function jsonDateParser () {
+  var reISO = /^(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2})T(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2}(?:\.\d*))(?:Z|(\+|-)([\d|:]*))?$/,
+    reMsAjax = /^\/Date\((d|-|.*)\)[\/|\\]$/;
+
+  return function (key, value) {
+    if (typeof value === 'string') {
+      var a = reISO.exec(value);
+
+      if (a) {
+        return new Date(value);
+      }
+      a = reMsAjax.exec(value);
+
+      if (a) {
+        var b = a[1].split(/[-+,.]/);
+        return new Date(b[0] ? +b[0] : 0 - +b[1]);
+      }
+    }
+    return value;
+  };
+});
+
 angularLocalStorage.provider('localStorageService', function() {
 
   // You should set a prefix to avoid overwriting any local storage variables from the rest of your app
@@ -62,7 +84,7 @@ angularLocalStorage.provider('localStorageService', function() {
     return this;
   };
 
-  this.$get = ['$rootScope', '$window', '$document', '$parse', function($rootScope, $window, $document, $parse) {
+  this.$get = ['$rootScope', '$window', '$document', '$parse', 'jsonDateParser', function($rootScope, $window, $document, $parse, jsonDateParser) {
     var self = this;
     var prefix = self.prefix;
     var cookie = self.cookie;
@@ -164,7 +186,7 @@ angularLocalStorage.provider('localStorageService', function() {
       }
 
       try {
-        return JSON.parse(item);
+        return JSON.parse(item, jsonDateParser);
       } catch (e) {
         return item;
       }
diff --git a/test/spec/localStorageSpec.js b/test/spec/localStorageSpec.js
index 7390c94..70ff62b 100644
--- a/test/spec/localStorageSpec.js
+++ b/test/spec/localStorageSpec.js
@@ -270,6 +270,15 @@ describe('localStorageService', function() {
     )
   });
 
+  it('should be able to set and get objects contains date - issue #241', function() {
+    var t = {x: new Date(946684800000)}; // 2000-JAN-01 00:00:00
+    inject(
+      addItem('key', t),
+      expectAdding('ls.key', angular.toJson(t)),
+      expectMatching('key', t)
+    );
+  });
+
   it('should be able to get items', inject(
     getItem('key'),
     expectGetting('ls.key')