Issue with cast function

Hi

Can someone help me in the following:
An example is shown below, I had assign a date (format: dd/mm/yyyy) to @.vdate. Follow by a cast to vchar. The issue is that the date format is changed after the cast. I would like the date format to remain as dd/mm/yyyy after doing the cast. Hope someone can give some advices. Thanks alot.

Example:

declare @.vdate as datetime
set @.vdate = convert(datetime,'01/10/2005',103)

select @.vdate --> '10/01/2005' (date format required)

cast(varchar(20),@.vdate) --> 'Oct 1, 2005' (date format changed)Dates are not stored in any format. They are actually stored as numeric values, which then are displayed in a requested format.
Read up in Books Online on the topics of datetime datatypes and the CAST and CONVERT functions.