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Brian Dunagan

September 24 2010
Cocoa Tip: NSDate, to the nearest 15 minutes

Unfortunately, NSDate doesn’t have a “round” selector like roundToNearestQuarterHour. But it does have NSDateComponents available. Just a couple lines of code using that handy class, and I can get the desired result: a date in Cocoa, rounded to the nearest 15 minutes. Just add the code below to the nearest NSDate category.

- (NSDate *)dateToNearest15Minutes {
	// Set up flags.
	unsigned unitFlags = NSYearCalendarUnit| NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit | NSWeekCalendarUnit |  NSHourCalendarUnit | NSMinuteCalendarUnit | NSSecondCalendarUnit | NSWeekdayCalendarUnit | NSWeekdayOrdinalCalendarUnit;
	// Extract components.
	NSDateComponents *comps = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:unitFlags fromDate:self];
	// Set the minute to the nearest 15 minutes.
	[comps setMinute:((([comps minute] - 8 ) / 15 ) * 15 ) + 15];
	// Zero out the seconds.
	[comps setSecond:0];
	// Construct a new date.
	return [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] dateFromComponents:comps];
}
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