SQL Confusion

It is bizarre how often I find laughable and silly code in production databases that are part of software which costs millions of dollars.

I'm sure there will be more of these to come. Here's my contribution for today.

SELECT distinct
...,
(select DATEADD(mi,-DatePart(mi, GetDate()), DATEADD(ss,-(DatePart(ss, GetDate())), GetDate()))) as orecordeddtm

WHOA! Run that statement and you'll see it's not only convoluted but it's wrong, too: it leaves the milliseconds portion of the time still on there (it's a datetime column). Here's my proposed simple and working alternative:

DateAdd(hh, DateDiff(hh, 0, GetDate()), 0)

The query is DISTINCT, which isn't a problem in this case because the expression is GetDate(). But what if the author of this used the same logic for a column? The left-in milliseconds would be messing everything up. Plus, why is the expression inside its very own select clause? Bizarre. Which of the following two statements makes more sense to YOU?

SELECT 1 + 1
SELECT (SELECT 1) + (SELECT 1)

Interesting is about the kindest description I can come up with for this.