MS SQL Server Concepts and Programming Question:

Date and time literals are entered as character strings enclosed in single quotes ('). The string must in one of the recognizable data and time formats. Some of the most commonly used formats are given in the following tutorial exercise:

-- Default format for query output
DECLARE @x DATETIME;
SET @x = '2007-05-19 22:55:07.233';
SELECT @x;
GO
2007-05-19 22:55:07.233

-- Default for string print output
DECLARE @x DATETIME;
SET @x = 'May 19 2007 10:55PM';
SELECT @x;
GO
2007-05-19 22:55:00.000

-- Europe default format
DECLARE @x DATETIME;
SET @x = '19-May-2007 22:55:07.233';
SELECT @x;
GO
2007-05-19 22:55:07.233

-- ISO8601 standard format
DECLARE @x DATETIME;
SET @x = '2007-05-19T22:55:07.233';
SELECT @x;
GO
2007-05-19 22:55:07.233