Ceil a datetime to next quarter of an hour

Question

Let\'s imagine this datetime

>>> import datetime
>>> dt = datetime.datetime(2012, 10, 25, 17, 32, 16)

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Answer 1

def ceil(dt):
    if dt.minute % 15 or dt.second:
        return dt + datetime.timedelta(minutes = 15 - dt.minute % 15,
                                       seconds = -(dt.second % 60))
    else:
        return dt

This gives you:

>>> ceil(datetime.datetime(2012,10,25, 17,45))
datetime.datetime(2012, 10, 25, 17, 45)
>>> ceil(datetime.datetime(2012,10,25, 17,45,1))
datetime.datetime(2012, 10, 25, 18, 0)
>>> ceil(datetime.datetime(2012,12,31,23,59,0))
datetime.datetime(2013,1,1,0,0)