Strip seconds from datetime

Question

I want to strip/remove seconds from a DateTime. Starting with a full Datetime like:

DateTime datetime = DateTime.UtcNow; 

I want to strip the seconds using any inbuilt function or regular expression.

Input: 08/02/2015 09:22:45

Expected result: 08/02/2015 09:22:00

Answer 1

You can create a new instance of date with the seconds set to 0.

DateTime a = DateTime.UtcNow; DateTime b = new DateTime(a.Year, a.Month, a.Day, a.Hour, a.Minute, 0, a.Kind);  Console.WriteLine(a); Console.WriteLine(b); 

Answer 2

You can do

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now; dt = dt.AddSeconds(-dt.Second); 

to set the seconds to 0.