Getting error "invalidRequest" when filtering based on lastModifiedDateTime (Microsoft Graph API)

I am using the below filters for the graph api request.

?$filter=lastModifiedDateTime ge 2023-10-06T06:48:54Z&$select=name,lastModifiedDateTime,@microsoft.graph.downloadUrl

I am getting the following error:

{
    "error": {
        "code": "invalidRequest",
        "message": "Invalid request"
    }
}

The request cannot be fulfilled due to bad syntax.

This is the list of items without the filter condition.

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(driveItem)",
    "value": [
        {
            "@odata*.etag": "***",
            "lastModifiedDateTime": "2023-10-06T06:48:54Z",
            "name": "Archive"
        },
        {
            "@odata.etag": "**",
            "lastModifiedDateTime": "2024-05-07T06:53:10Z",
            "name": "Pricing_Reference_Data_from_Source_Report.xlsx"
        }
    ]
}

Could you please help me understand what the issue with the above syntax is? Thanks in advance.

For your query to work, you need to specify the Prefer request header with the value TryFilterLastModifiedDateTimeTimeWarningMayFailRandomly,apiversion=2.1.

GET /v1.0/sites/{site_id}/drives/{drive_id}/root:/{folder_name}:/children?$filter=lastModifiedDateTime ge datetime '2023-10-06T06:48:54Z'&$select=name,lastModifiedDateTime,@microsoft.graph.downloadUrl

Prefer: TryFilterLastModifiedDateTimeTimeWarningMayFailRandomly,apiversion=2.1

The apiversion=2.1 will ensure that your request is routed to internal beta SharePoint API . Because it's internal beta API, it's not recommended for the production.

The TryFilterLastModifiedDateTimeTimeWarningMayFailRandomly will ensure that you can filter drive items by lastModifiedDateTime, but as the name says, the filtering can fail randomly.