diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 60b31c60..05d576e7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
 - Fix Increased robustness when schema with empty properties is returned
+- Use valid default value for Edm.DateTimeOffset - Reto Schneider
+
+### Changed
+- Adjusted Edm.DateTime default value to January 1, 1753 A.D - Reto Schneider
 
 ## [1.8.0]
 
diff --git a/pyodata/v2/model.py b/pyodata/v2/model.py
index 3a3e1540..3c5195f3 100644
--- a/pyodata/v2/model.py
+++ b/pyodata/v2/model.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ def _build_types():
             Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.Binary', 'binary\'\'', EdmBinaryTypTraits('(?:binary|X)')))
             Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.Boolean', 'false', EdmBooleanTypTraits()))
             Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.Byte', '0'))
-            Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.DateTime', 'datetime\'2000-01-01T00:00\'', EdmDateTimeTypTraits()))
+            Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.DateTime', 'datetime\'1753-01-01T00:00\'', EdmDateTimeTypTraits()))
             Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.Decimal', '0.0M'))
             Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.Double', '0.0d', EdmFPNumTypTraits.edm_double()))
             Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.Single', '0.0f', EdmFPNumTypTraits.edm_single()))
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ def _build_types():
             Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.String', '\'\'', EdmStringTypTraits()))
             Types.register_type(Typ('Edm.Time', 'time\'PT00H00M\''))
             Types.register_type(
-                Typ('Edm.DateTimeOffset', 'datetimeoffset\'0000-00-00T00:00:00Z\'', EdmDateTimeOffsetTypTraits()))
+                Typ('Edm.DateTimeOffset', 'datetimeoffset\'1753-01-01T00:00:00Z\'', EdmDateTimeOffsetTypTraits()))
 
     @staticmethod
     def register_type(typ):
diff --git a/tests/test_service_v2.py b/tests/test_service_v2.py
index 191a0316..a5925ee9 100644
--- a/tests/test_service_v2.py
+++ b/tests/test_service_v2.py
@@ -2345,6 +2345,28 @@ def test_create_entity_with_naive_datetime(service):
     assert str(e_info.value).startswith('Emd.DateTime accepts only UTC')
 
 
+@responses.activate
+def test_null_datetime(service):
+    """Test default value of DateTime. Default value gets inserted when a property is null"""
+
+    responses.add(
+        responses.GET,
+        f"{service.url}/TemperatureMeasurements",
+        headers={'Content-type': 'application/json'},
+        json={'d': {
+            'results': [
+                {
+                    'Date': None,
+                }
+            ]
+        }},
+        status=200)
+
+    result = service.entity_sets.TemperatureMeasurements.get_entities().execute()
+
+    assert result[0].Date == datetime.datetime(1753, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)
+
+
 @responses.activate
 def test_parsing_of_datetime_before_unix_time(service):
     """Test DateTime handling of time before 1970"""
@@ -2379,7 +2401,9 @@ def test_parsing_of_datetime_before_unix_time(service):
     ('/Date(981173106000+0001)/', datetime.datetime(2001, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
                                                     tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)))),
     ('/Date(981173106000-0001)/', datetime.datetime(2001, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
-                                                    tzinfo=datetime.timezone(-datetime.timedelta(minutes=1))))])
+                                                    tzinfo=datetime.timezone(-datetime.timedelta(minutes=1)))),
+    (None, datetime.datetime(1753, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)),
+])
 def test_parsing_of_datetimeoffset(service, json_input, expected):
     """Test DateTimeOffset handling."""