Question

For example I have

NSDate *curDate = [NSDate date];

and its value is 9:13 am. I am not using year, month and day parts of curDate.

What I want to get is date with 9:15 time value; If I have time value 9:16 I want to advance it to 9:20 and so on.

How can I do that with NSDate?

Answer 1

Take the minute value, divide by 5 rounding up to get the next highest 5 minute unit, multiply to 5 to get that back into in minutes, and construct a new NSDate.

NSDateComponents *time = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar]
                          components:NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit
                            fromDate:curDate];
NSInteger minutes = [time minute];
float minuteUnit = ceil((float) minutes / 5.0);
minutes = minuteUnit * 5.0;
[time setMinute: minutes];
curDate = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] dateFromComponents:time];