SQL cast datatime

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Published on 2010-03-25T17:54:57Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 18:03 UTC
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In SQL Server 2005, why does:

PRINT Cast('' AS datetime)

display:

Jan 1 1900 12:00AM

I would have thought it should be null?

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