Question

I need to round-off the hours based on the minutes in a DateTime variable. The condition is: if minutes are less than 30, then minutes must be set to zero and no changes to hours, else if minutes >=30, then hours must be set to hours+1 and minutes are again set to zero. Seconds are ignored.

example:

11/08/2008 04:30:49 should become 11/08/2008 05:00:00

and 11/08/2008 04:29:49 should become 11/08/2008 04:00:00

I have written code which works perfectly fine, but just wanted to know a better method if could be written and also would appreciate alternative method(s).

string date1 = "11/08/2008 04:30:49";
DateTime startTime;
DateTime.TryParseExact(date1, "MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss", null,     
    System.Globalization.DateTimeStyles.None, out startTime);

if (Convert.ToInt32((startTime.Minute.ToString())) > 29)
{
    startTime = DateTime.Parse(string.Format("{0}/{1}/{2} {3}:{4}:{5}",
        startTime.Month.ToString(), startTime.Day.ToString(), 
        startTime.Year.ToString(), startTime.Hour.ToString(), "00", "00"));
    startTime = startTime.Add(TimeSpan.Parse("01:00:00"));
    Console.WriteLine("startTime is :: {0}", 
        startTime.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
}
else
{
    startTime = DateTime.Parse(string.Format("{0}/{1}/{2} {3}:{4}:{5}", 
        startTime.Month.ToString(), 
        startTime.Day.ToString(), startTime.Year.ToString(), 
        startTime.Hour.ToString(), "00", "00"));

        Console.WriteLine("startTime is :: {0}", 
        startTime.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
}

Answer 1

Just as an alternative:

public static DateTime Round( DateTime dateTime )
{
    var updated = dateTime.AddMinutes( 30 );
    return new DateTime( updated.Year, updated.Month, updated.Day,
                         updated.Hour,  0, 0, dateTime.Kind );
}