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

You can easily use Format() function instead of all the casting for sql 2012 and above only

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

This is by far the best way to do the required conversion.

Answer 2

You can cast datetime to time

select CAST(GETDATE() as time)

If you want a hh:mm format

select cast(CAST(GETDATE() as time) as varchar(5))