DATEPART(HH,GETDATE()) AS 'SubmissionID',

[Homerboy]

Why is that SQL query not outputting 24hr time?

At 9am its just outputting "9" and not "09"?

Though I guess that is technically still 24hr time? I guess I need it to output 2 digits regardless.

 

[WannaFly]

I'm sure there is an easier way to do this but it it what i came up with:
SELECT replicate('0', 2-LEN(DATEPART(HH,'1/1/11 9:00am'))) + CONVERT(varchar(2),DATEPART(HH,'1/1/11 9:00am')) AS 'SubmissionID'

 

[Homerboy]

That only accounts for 9am though. There has to be a way to make the HH component always come back as 2 digits.

Sadly it's 10am now... so kinda hard to test

 

[Homerboy]

ah crap.
It does it with minutes too.

DATEPART(HH,GETDATE()) ,
DATEPART(MI,GETDATE()) ,

just returned "10" and "3"
should be "10" and "03"

There has to be an easy way to do this.

 

[Homerboy]

REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar(5), GETDATE(), 108), ':', '')

DUH!

 

[ForumMaster]

don't use datepart imo. a more correct function is convert.

with that function, you can also specify styling which should solve your problem in a non-ugly way.

 

[Homerboy]

did you see my post right above yours?