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Manipulating GetDate()

  • June 22, 2006 at 6:07 pm

    #115563

    Hello Everyone

    I need to find a way of manipulating getdate so that i can reverse it to anytime.

    So for example

    iF Getdate says the time is: 2006-06-23 01:06:23.857

    I have been trying to create a functionality in which I can manipulate getdate so that it returns 12 Midnight dynamically, so at the moment, the time is 01-06, it means I need to find a way to make Getdate deduct 1 hour and 6 minutes, so it selects/returns 12 midnight.

    In this case, I could have subtracted 1 hour 6 minutes, but as we know, Getdate is not static, so I need to be able to generate this dynamically

     

    Thanks

     

    Kindest Regards,

    John Burchel (Trainee Developer)

  • June 22, 2006 at 7:30 pm

    #645418

    If all you want to do is have GETDATE() return a time of midnight no matter what the time is, this will do...

    SELECT DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,GETDATE()),0)

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  • June 23, 2006 at 12:12 am

    #645454

    Thanks very much for your solution, this worked a treat, the other question is what if I need to make 12 midnight 4AM in the midnight ?

    Kindest Regards,

    John Burchel (Trainee Developer)

  • June 23, 2006 at 1:57 am

    #645470

    select

    dateadd(hour,4,dateadd(d,0,datediff(d,0,getdate())))

    Tim Wilkinson

    "If it doesn't work in practice, you're using the wrong theory"
    - Immanuel Kant

  • June 23, 2006 at 2:24 am

    #645473

    Thanks very much everyone.

    This has sorted me out

     

    Kindest Regards,

    John Burchel (Trainee Developer)

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