Extracting time from timestamp

Hi,

I know this is rather stupid but still,

I have a table which has a timestamp field in it and I need to get only time
part of it. i.e. HH:MI format.

So far I tried,

phd=# select to_timestamp( to_char(stime,'HH24:MI'),'HH24:MI') from bookings;
      to_timestamp
------------------------
 0001-01-01 04:30:00 BC
 0001-01-01 04:30:00 BC
 0001-01-01 04:30:00 BC
(3 rows)


I don't know where that BC crept in. It does not show up when I just select
stime from bookings;

I also tried

phd=# select timestamp to_char(stime,'HH24:MI'),'HH24:MI' from bookings;
ERROR:  parser: parse error at or near "to_char" at character 18

To me that looks like casting a text returned by to_char to timestamp. This
casting should work if I infer from things like to_char(timestamp
'now','HH12:MI:SS') mentioned in postgresql manual(Data type formatting
function, section 6.7).

Being very stupid, is there any more efficient way of doing this?

TIA..

 Shridhar