Get Hours and Minutes (HH:MM) from date

Question

I want to get only hh:mm from date.

How I can get this?

I have tried this :

CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), getdate(), 108)

Answer 1

Another method using DATEPART built-in function:

SELECT cast(DATEPART(hour, GETDATE()) as varchar) + ':' + cast(DATEPART(minute, GETDATE()) as varchar)

Answer 2

Just use the first 5 characters...?

 SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(5),getdate(),108) 

Answer 3

The following works on 2008R2+ to produce 'HH:MM':

select
case
when len(replace(replace(replace(right(cast(getdate() as varchar),7),'AM',''),'PM',''),' ','')) = 4
then '0'+ replace(replace(replace(right(cast(getdate() as varchar),7),'AM',''),'PM',''),' ','')
else replace(replace(replace(right(cast(getdate() as varchar),7),'AM',''),'PM',''),' ','') end as [Time]

Answer 4

If you want to display 24 hours format use:

SELECT FORMAT(GETDATE(),'HH:mm')

and to display 12 hours format use:

SELECT FORMAT(GETDATE(),'hh:mm')

Answer 5

Here is syntax for showing hours and minutes for a field coming out of a SELECT statement. In this example, the SQL field is named "UpdatedOnAt" and is a DateTime. Tested with MS SQL 2014.

SELECT Format(UpdatedOnAt ,'hh:mm') as UpdatedOnAt from MyTable

I like the format that shows the day of the week as a 3-letter abbreviation, and includes the seconds:

SELECT Format(UpdatedOnAt ,'ffffd hh:mm:ss') as UpdatedOnAt from MyTable

The "as UpdatedOnAt" suffix is optional. It gives you a column heading equal tot he field you were selecting to begin with.

Answer 6

Following code shows current hour and minutes in 'Hour:Minutes' column for us.

SELECT  CONVERT(VARCHAR(5), GETDATE(), 108) + 
(CASE WHEN DATEPART(HOUR, GETDATE()) > 12 THEN ' PM'
    ELSE ' AM'
END) 'Hour:Minutes'

or

SELECT  Format(GETDATE(), 'hh:mm') + 
(CASE WHEN DATEPART(HOUR, GETDATE()) > 12 THEN ' PM'
    ELSE ' AM'
END) 'Hour:Minutes'