Monkey patching DateTime::Tiny

sub DateTime::Tiny::TO_JSON { shift->as_string };

$ prove -vl t/v2.t

ok 1 - v2_greeting
ok 2 - v2_reverse
    # {
    #   'items' => [
    #     {
    #       '_id' => {
    #         '$oid' => '557599a1a114607cad788481'
    #       },
    #       'date' => '2015-06-08T16:33:21',
    #       'text' => 'First Thing to do'
    #     }
    #   ]
    # }
ok 3 - v2_items
ok 4 - no warnings
ok
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=4,  2 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr  0.00 sys +  1.52 cusr  0.14 csys =  1.70 CPU)
Result: PASS

Testing

like $items1->{items}[0]{date}, qr/^\d\d\d\d-\d\d-\d\dT\d\d:\d\d:\d\d$/;