Question

I need to add a ‘StartDate’ parameter to a report in Reporting Services 2005, which should represent the current date, at midnight.

If I use Now() as expression, it will correctly use midnight in the calculations, but to the user, the time part will not be shown.

13/12/2011

which can be confusing because then the user doesn’t really realise he or she can type in a time part.

How can I format this date to the following:
13/12/2011 00:00
while keeping the parameter as a DateTime datatype.?

Edit: I’ve checked the duplicate question and tried to apply it to my case, but run into the following phenomenom:

If I try:

=DateTime.Parse(Format(Now().Date().AddSeconds(1), "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss"))

Then the parameter shows “14/12/2011 00:00:01” which is confusing for the users, so I then tried the following:

=DateTime.Parse(Format(Now().Date().AddSeconds(1), "d/M/yyyy HH:mm"))

But then the parameter shows “14/12/2011” again! In other words, the time part is gone again!

Who invented this stuff? 😛

Answer 1

Your formula with .Parse(Format(… causes redundant work that is messing things up. Try this:

=Now().Date().AddSeconds(.001)