Rounding up to nearest 30 minutes in python

Question

I have the following code below.

I would like to roundup TIME to the nearest 30 minutes in the hour. For example: 12:00PM or 12:30PM and so on.

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Answer 1

Round up to nearest amount specified in minutes via round_mins without using third-party libraries and just a few lines of code.

import datetime
round_mins = 30
now = datetime.datetime.now()
mins = now.minute - (now.minute % round_mins)
print datetime.datetime(now.year, now.month, now.day, now.hour, mins) + datetime.timedelta(minutes=round_mins)

Answer 2

this should work too, not sure about time zones though

rounded=time.gmtime(30*60*(round(time.time()/(30*60))))

Answer 3

Thanks for all the input guys. I solved this with my own approach.

min_time = timezone.localtime(timezone.now())
min_time_est = min_time.minute 
if min_time_est > 30:
    add_mins = 60 - min_time_est
else:
    add_mins = 30 - min_time_est

EASTERN_NOW = timezone.localtime(timezone.now() + timedelta(minutes=add_mins))
TIME = datetime.time(EASTERN_NOW.time().hour, EASTERN_NOW.time().minute).strftime(
    VALID_TIME_FORMATS[2])

In case anyone else has a similar problem. The about 'TIME' outputs every 30 mins e.g '1:00PM' or '1:30PM'.