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

You can divide your minutes by 30, round that and multiply by 30 again to get either 0, 30 or 60 minutes:

date = datetime.datetime(2015, 9, 22, 12, 35)
approx = round(date.minute/30.0) * 30

date = date.replace(minute=0)
date += datetime.timedelta(seconds=approx * 60)
time = date.time()
print(time.strftime('%H:%M'))
# prints '13:30'

I'm using a datetime object because timedelta doesn't work with time objects. In the end you can obtain the time using date.time().