How to get Web API OData v4 to use DateTime

Question

I have a fairly large data model that I want to expose using Web API OData using the OData V4 protocol.

The underlying data is stored in a SQL Server 2012 database.

Answer 1

Both the following work with ODATA 4

1 : This is the Latest update I see with .Net 4.7 and Microsoft.Aspnet.ODATA 5.3.1

$filter=DateofTravel lt cast(2018-05-15T00:00:00.00Z,Edm.DateTimeOffset)

2 : This also works , it needs to be in this yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss.ssZ

$filter=DateofTravel lt 2018-02-02T00:00:00.00Z