Question

I would like an elegant way to round a java Date up or down to the nearest minute (or second, hour, day).

For example a date of “Wed Jan 25 10:36:34 GMT 2012” rounded up to the nearest minute would be “Wed Jan 25 10:37:00 GMT 2012”

Answer 1

If you use Apache commons-lang, you can use DateUtils to round your dates:

Date now = new Date();
Date nearestMinute = DateUtils.round(now, Calendar.MINUTE);