Strip seconds from datetime

Question

I want to trip/remove seconds from date time. I checked some solution but showing solution using format string like

DateTime datetime = DateTime.UtcNow;


        

Answer 1

To get a local time you can use:

var dt = DateTime.Now;
dt = dt.AddTicks(-(dt.Ticks % (60 * 10_000_000)));

Answer 2

DateTime is actually stored separately as a Date and a TimeOfDay. We can easily re-initialize the date without including the seconds in the TimeSpan initialization. This also ensures any leftover milliseconds are removed.

date = date.Date + new TimeSpan(date.TimeOfDay.Hours, date.TimeOfDay.Minutes, 0);