Question

Could someone please show me a way in SQL and C# to format my date string like the following?

2/24/2012 22:00

Note: I don’t need the seconds.

given:

declare @myDate varchar(50)
set @myDate = '2/24/2012 10:00 PM'

select @myDate

I’m showing the code snippet above to indicate that the date’s source type is varchar.

Answer 1

For SQL, you can try:

DECLARE @date DATETIME;
SET @date = CONVERT(DATETIME, @myDate, 20);
SELECT convert(varchar(10), @date, 101) + convert(varchar(5), @date, 114);

For C#,

DateTime convertedDate = DateTime.Parse('2/24/2012 10:00 PM');
String newDateStr = convertedDate.toString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm");