Construct DateTime using today's date at a specific time

Question

I\'d like to get 4:30 PM of the current day. Hard-coding this way doesn\'t work:

SELECT \'07242012 16:30:00.000\'

This is proving to be mor

Answer 1

Probably the easiest thing to do is to cast the current date/time to a date (stripping the time off), cast it back to a datetime to allow use of datetime's overloaded + (plus) and, finally cast your desired textual time to a datetime. As follows:

select cast(cast(sysutcdatetime() as date) as datetime) + cast('16:30' as datetime)

returns (when run on 11th Jan 2018):

2018-01-11 16:30:00.000