Question

I have a table with a column ReceivedOn of type DateTime. I am executing a stored procedure with select statement like this:

Select 
    CONVERT(DateTime,ReceivedOn)[Date/Time], MessageText[Event] 
From 
    RawFeed 
Where 
    ATM = (Select Code From ATM Where ATM = @ATMID) 
    AND ReceivedOn Between @From And @To 
Order By 
    ReceivedOn Desc 

I am storing stored procedure result in a DataTable object. and showing this object on my .aspx page

dtReturn = sspObj.ExecuteDataTable();
return dtReturn ;

DataTable object is converting into HTML table using some function storing result in table object and adding that to the page

tOutput = Generix.convertDataTable2HTMLTable(dtOutput, true, true, false);
Page.Controls.Add(tOutput);

But instead of displaying values as

2012-10-05 16:40:35.234

I get output like this:

2012-10-05 04:40:35 PM

Answer 1

It’s not a SQL issue; SQL is returning a datetime, which is getting formatted by C# into the output you are seeing. If you want SQL server to return a varchar (string) representing the date in your format, try:

SELECT CONVERT(varchar(24), ReceivedOn, 121)

See Cast and Convert for more details.