This is not a duplicate question, but involves a little understanding about time.
I need a solution to the following problem I have a number of specifically produced times (based on a date), that need to be rounded to the nearest 15 secs:
60 secs is 1 minute meaning a regular round, floor, ceiling is to the nearest decimal (10/5) which doesn't help me with time. also since I'm dealing with secs, it could be that 59:59 will be rounded up to the nearest hour: e.g. 17:59:59 should be 18:00.
example:
6:17:29 rounded to 6:17:30 6:29:55 rounded to 6:30:00 20:45:34 rounded to 20:45:30
The following code does some of the job:
$hr = date('H',($resultStr));
$mn = date('i',($resultStr));
$sc = date('s',($resultStr));
$tot = ($hr * 60 * 60) + ($mn * 60) + $sc;
$totd = $tot / (60);
$totc = ceil($totd);
$totc = $totc / 60;
$hr = floor($totc);
$mn = ($totc - $hr)*60;
$mnflr = floor($mn);
$mn2 = $mn - $mnflr;
echo "$hr:$mnflr";
This results in: 18:35:17 rounded to: 18:36 (which is wrong) 18:31:49 rounded to: 18:32 (which is wrong)
As an aside:
$secs = date('U',($resultStr));
$round = ceil ( (($secs / 60 ) * 60 ));
$newtime = date('H:i:s',($round));
produces: 18:42:58 rounded to: 18:42:58 which is also incorrect
Please and thank you in advance....