DateTime Round Up and Down

Question

Ive been looking for a proper rounding mechanism but nothing I find seems to be exactly what I need.

I need to round up and round down seperately and I also need to acco

Answer 1

This will let you round according to any interval given.

public static class DateTimeExtensions
{
  public static DateTime Floor(this DateTime dateTime, TimeSpan interval)
  {
    return dateTime.AddTicks(-(dateTime.Ticks % interval.Ticks));
  }

  public static DateTime Ceiling(this DateTime dateTime, TimeSpan interval)
  {
    var overflow = dateTime.Ticks % interval.Ticks;

    return overflow == 0 ? dateTime : dateTime.AddTicks(interval.Ticks - overflow);
  }

  public static DateTime Round(this DateTime dateTime, TimeSpan interval)
  {
    var halfIntervalTicks = (interval.Ticks + 1) >> 1;

    return dateTime.AddTicks(halfIntervalTicks - ((dateTime.Ticks + halfIntervalTicks) % interval.Ticks));
  }
}

To take care of truncating the seconds, I would simply subtract the seconds and milliseconds from the date-time before sending them into the rounding functions.

Answer 2

Here is a fast way to truncate (round down)

var now = DateTime.Now;
var nowTicks = now.Ticks;

//removing the nanoseconds, miliseconds, and seconds from the nowTicks
var lastMinute = new DateTime(nowTicks - (nowTicks % (1000*1000*10*60)));

Answer 3

This function will round up or down to the nearest interval (minutes).

    private static DateTime NormalizeReadingInterval(DateTime originalTime, int interval)
    {
        if (originalTime.Minute % interval == 0) return originalTime;
        var epochTime = new DateTime(1900, 1, 1);
        var minutes = (originalTime - epochTime).TotalMinutes;
        var numIntervals = minutes / interval;
        var roundedNumIntervals = Math.Round(numIntervals, 0);
        return epochTime.AddMinutes(roundedNumIntervals * interval);
    }

Answer 4

How about:

case RoundingDirection.Up:
    t = dt.AddMinutes((60 - dt.Minute) % 10);
case RoundingDirection.Down:
    t = dt.AddMinutes(-dt.Minute % 10);

Demo: http://ideone.com/AlB7Q

Answer 5

Another approach avoiding arithmetic using type long.

Using integer division, where a & b are positive integers:

a/b             // rounding down 
(a+b-1)/b       // rounding up 
((2*a)+b)/(2*b) // rounding to the nearest (0.5 up)

To round up:

public static DateTime UpToNearestXmin( DateTime dt, int block )
{
   int a = dt.Minute;
   int b = block;

   int mins = block * (( a + b - 1 ) / b );

   return new DateTime( dt.Year, dt.Month, dt.Day, dt.Hour, 0, 0 ).AddMinutes( mins );
}

To round down or to nearest, change the mins calculation as appropriate.

The minutes are rounded. The seconds & milliseconds are zeroed which is expected behaviour.