Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string while inserting datetime

Question

I was trying to create a table as follows,

create table table1(date1 datetime,date2 datetime);

First I tried inserting values as below,

Answer 1

Simple answer - 5 is Italian "yy" and 105 is Italian "yyyy". Therefore:

SELECT convert(datetime,'21-02-12 6:10:00 PM',5)

will work correctly, but

SELECT convert(datetime,'21-02-12 6:10:00 PM',105)

will give error.

Likewise,

SELECT convert(datetime,'21-02-2012 6:10:00 PM',5)

will give error, where as

SELECT convert(datetime,'21-02-2012 6:10:00 PM',105)

will work.