Default Timezone Change for OData and OpenSearch APIs [2024-05-28]

Please be informed that the OData and OpenSearch APIs were updated on 28th May 2024; the default timezone has been changed to UTC.

As of 28th May 2024, all API requests without a specified timezone are treated by default as datetime provided in UTC format.

Previously, if a client did not specify a timezone in their date request, it defaulted to Warsaw local time. However, starting form 28th May 2024, all API requests without a specified timezone default to datetime provided in UTC format.

This change is aimed at standardizing our API responses and ensuring uniformity.

To specify a timezone within the request:

OData API (e.g. UTC-4)

https://catalogue.dataspace.copernicus.eu/resto/api/collections/Sentinel1/search.json?startDate=2022-05-03T00:00:00+01:00&maxRecords=2

Note

Please note while making an API request, any special characters need to be encoded in a specific way so that they can be interpreted correctly by the server. In the case of the plus sign (+), it’s a reserved character in URLs and is interpreted as a space. So, if you want to represent a literal plus sign within your API request, you need to encode it as ‘%2b’.

Examples of API requests without the timezone and API responses before and after the change:

OData API Example

OpenSearch API Example