How to truncate milliseconds off of a .NET DateTime
The following will work for a DateTime that has fractional milliseconds, and also preserves the Kind property (Local, Utc or Undefined).
DateTime dateTime = ... anything ...
dateTime = new DateTime(
dateTime.Ticks - (dateTime.Ticks % TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond),
dateTime.Kind
);
or the equivalent and shorter:
dateTime = dateTime.AddTicks( - (dateTime.Ticks % TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond));
This could be generalized into an extension method:
public static DateTime Truncate(this DateTime dateTime, TimeSpan timeSpan)
{
if (timeSpan == TimeSpan.Zero) return dateTime; // Or could throw an ArgumentException
if (dateTime == DateTime.MinValue || dateTime == DateTime.MaxValue) return dateTime; // do not modify "guard" values
return dateTime.AddTicks(-(dateTime.Ticks % timeSpan.Ticks));
}
which is used as follows:
dateTime = dateTime.Truncate(TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(1)); // Truncate to whole ms
dateTime = dateTime.Truncate(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)); // Truncate to whole second
dateTime = dateTime.Truncate(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(1)); // Truncate to whole minute
...
var date = DateTime.Now;
date = new DateTime(date.Year, date.Month, date.Day, date.Hour, date.Minute, date.Second, date.Kind);