How to round to nearest hour using JavaScript Date Object
Round the minutes and then clear the minutes:
var date = new Date(2011,1,1,4,55); // 4:55
roundMinutes(date); // 5:00
function roundMinutes(date) {
date.setHours(date.getHours() + Math.round(date.getMinutes()/60));
date.setMinutes(0, 0, 0); // Resets also seconds and milliseconds
return date;
}
The other answers ignore seconds and milliseconds components of the date.
The accepted answer has been updated to handle milliseconds, but it still does not handle daylight savings time properly.
I would do something like this:
function roundToHour(date) {
p = 60 * 60 * 1000; // milliseconds in an hour
return new Date(Math.round(date.getTime() / p ) * p);
}
var date = new Date(2011,1,1,4,55); // 4:55
roundToHour(date); // 5:00
date = new Date(2011,1,1,4,25); // 4:25
roundToHour(date); // 4:00