Format of DateTimeOffset in OData

Question

I have two JavaScript Date objects. I need to do an OData query between these two Date objects. The information I'm querying has a field called createDate which is a DateTimeOffset. From my understanding, I can do something like this:

entities?filter=((createDate ge [Date1]) and (createDate le [Date2]))

My question is:

1. What format is a DateTimeOffset?
2. How do I convert a JavaScript Date object to DateTimeOffset format?

Thank you!

Answer 1

First it depends your version of OData service. OData V4 is not compatible with OData V3.

OData V4

Format of DataTimeOffset please refer to CSDL spec of OData V4

An example of filtering the DateTimeOffset is http://services.odata.org/V4/TripPinService/People('russellwhyte')/Trips?$filter=StartsAt eq 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

OData V3

Format of DataTimeOffset please refer to CSDL spec of OData V3

And example of filtering the DateTimeOffset is http://services.odata.org/V3/OData/OData.svc/Products?$filter=ReleaseDate gt datetime'1995-09-01T00:00:00'