Get minute part from time data type

With the time data type (I'm using Microsoft SQL Server 2008), is there any way to take only the minute part out of it? I tried to pass the time to datepart and datediff function but both refused to work.

Example: I want to get 15 from 04:15

select datepart(minute, '04:15')

Utilize the DATEPART() function, with minute as the datepart param.

declare @current_time time

select @current_time = getdate()

select datepart(minute, @current_time) as current_minute

BOL Reference on DATEPART

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