Question

I would like to return my datetime data to the following format:

mm/dd/yy hh:mi:ssAM

According to the CONVERT documentation the closest thing that matches my spec is ‘131’

SELECT CONVERT(varchar, GETDATE(), 131)

but it doesn’t exactly match my specifications.

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EDIT:
I ended up doing the date formatting in my application layer which is PHP.

It was as simple as using the strtotime function to generate a UNIX timestamp and pass it into date funciton.

$date = date('m/d/Y g:ia', strtotime($row['date_time']));

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT CONVERT(varchar, GETDATE(), 101) + 
REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar, GETDATE(), 0),REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar, GETDATE(),107), ',',''),'')

This basically uses a method that’s what you want for the DATE, then adds it to the time portion of what you want for the time only.