How can you show the date in a gridview as a date only instead of a datetime?

Question

I am pulling in date values from a sql server database using a gridview and and the date gets converted from

12/12/2009 to 12/12/2009 12:

Answer 1

use this in query where you are getting date field

CONVERT(VARCHAR,date column name,103) as date

ex:select column1,column2,CONVERT(VARCHAR,date column name,103) as date from tablename