Question

I have a problem: I have a datetime and I need the date to specific format

So I just casted datetime to time

SELECT CAST (GETDATE() AS DATE) -- result (2011-06-08)

and for formatting I use convert

SELECT CONVERT(DATE, CAST (GETDATE() AS DATE), 105) --result (2011-06-08)

105 format (dd-mm-yy)

but, the result of both is same,

CONVERT is not working for 105 formatting,

Any ideas?

thanks

Answer 1

To get the results you’re looking for you need to convert the DATE to a VARCHAR like this:

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CAST (GETDATE() AS DATE),105)

If you cast to a DATE, you will always get the full DATE.

You can truncate the date by re-casting to the DATE type.

SELECT CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),CAST (GETDATE() AS DATE),105) as DATE)