Question

I am trying to get current date – 6 days. That is easy.

Now I am trying to get current date – 6 days + 12:01 AM.

So if today is 3-2-2012 11:14 AM.

I want to get 2-25-2012 12:01 AM

These 2 selects will give me current date – 6, but will not reset the time to 12:01 AM

• select getdate()-6
• SELECT DATEADD(day, -6, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);

Answer 1

Using the following will give you the result in a datetime format:

SELECT CAST(Convert(varchar(10), DateAdd(d, -6, getdate()), 101) 
        + ' 12:01 AM' as datetime)

Result: 2012-02-25 00:01:00.000

Once you have the datetime that you want, you can convert it to many different formats.

Or you can do the following which is in a varchar format:

select Convert(varchar(10), DateAdd(d, -6, getdate()), 110) + ' 12:01 AM'

which results in 02-25-2012 12:01 AM