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Posted on 3 Jul 2018 21:44:59 by Community Power Pla...

I need help with a flow app. I want to be able to take the current time, round that time up to the nearest quarter hour and then add 7 minutes to that time. Then I want to delay the rest of my flow until that time comes. For example: Current time is 15:18, I want it to round up to 15:30 and then add 7 minutes to make it 15:37. I then want to delay the rest of my flow until that time.

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WillPage 1,907 on 02 Aug 2024 at 03:48:00

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Take current time and round up to nearest quarter hour

Here is your formula to round a number between 0 and 59 to the next 15 minute interval:
mul(add(int(first(split(string(div(float(outputs('Minutes')),15)),'.'))),1),15)

Where outputs('Minutes') is the result of a formula like formatDateTime(utcNow(),'MM') or however you get your minutes.

Here is proof it works:

This is much cleaner than a bunch of if statements
ChrisSM 46 on 01 Aug 2024 at 20:24:55

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Take current time and round up to nearest quarter hour

@Chriddle It seems the formatDateTime solution breaks for times that start with 0, like 2024-07-08T17:02:00Z, because int() removes leading zeros. It's not elegant but I added an if statement to check for the length of the output. I changed from 15 to 30 for my own use case.

addMinutes(
   formatDateTime(
       outputs('Compose_12'),
       concat(
           'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:',
           if(equals(length(string(mul(div(int(formatDateTime(outputs('Compose_12'), 'mm')),30),30))), 1), concat(0, mul(div(int(formatDateTime(outputs('Compose_12'), 'mm')),30),30)), mul(div(int(formatDateTime(outputs('Compose_12'), 'mm')),30),30))

       )
   ),
   30
)
Chriddle 7,689 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 04 Jul 2024 at 16:35:41

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Re: Take current time and round up to nearest quarter hour

Same approach using formatDateTime

~~addMinutes( formatDateTime( outputs('Compose'), concat( 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:', mul( div( int(formatDateTime(outputs('Compose'), 'mm')), 15 ), 15 ) ) ), 15 )~~

As @ChrisSM correctly noted, the above expression fails with 1 digit as the minute.
Therfore an update:
addMinutes( formatDateTime( outputs('Compose'), concat( 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:', formatNumber( mul( div( int(formatDateTime(outputs('Compose'), 'mm')), 15 ), 15 ), '00', 'es-es' ) ) ), 15 )
Chriddle 7,689 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 04 Jul 2024 at 16:17:20

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Re: Take current time and round up to nearest quarter hour

My try:

Cut off the seconds and reduce the minutes to the previous full quarter, then add 15 minutes (no issues with next hour/day/month etc).

addMinutes( concat( slice(outputs('Compose'), 0, 14), mul( div( int(slice(outputs('Compose'), 14, 16)), 15 ), 15 ) ), 15 )
WilvertB 4 on 04 Jul 2024 at 14:15:32

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Re: Take current time and round up to nearest quarter hour

As I came across this post when searching for this issue, since there still seems to be no out-of-the-box solution, I will post my solution for other people who might need it.

This works in separate compose actions or you can make a single long one, combining the formulas. Should also work with AM/PM times if in the last step the formatDateTime is changed accordingly.

Probably someone else will have a more compact/optimised version but here you go.

"TIMEINPUT": Time input

The seconds:
"OUTPUTSECONDS": div(add(int(formatDateTime(TIMEINPUT, 'ss')), 30), 60) = either 0 or 1

The minutes:
"OUTPUTMINUTES": mul(div(add(add(int(formatDateTime(TIMEINPUT, 'mm')), 7), OUTPUTSECONDS), 15), 15) = either 0, 15, 30, 45 or 60

The hours:
"OUTPUTHOURS": formatDateTime(addHours(TIMEINPUT, if(equals(OUTPUTMINUTES, 60), 1, 0)), 'HH')

The full time:
formatDateTime(concat(OUTPUTHOURS, ':', if(equals(OUTPUTMINUTES, 60), 0, OUTPUTMINUTES), ':00'), 'HH:mm:ss')
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Community Power Pla... on 10 Jul 2018 at 18:34:20

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Re: Take current time and round up to nearest quarter hour

Thank you! I ended using a combo of if statements to accomplish this.

if(lessOrEquals(variables('Minutes'),15),add(sub(15,variables('Minutes')),7),if(and(greater(variables('Minutes'),15),lessOrEquals(variables('Minutes'),30)),add(sub(30,variables('Minutes')),7),if(and(greater(variables('Minutes'),30),lessOrEquals(variables('Minutes'),45)),add(sub(45,variables('Minutes')),7),if(greater(variables('Minutes'),45),add(sub(60,variables('Minutes')),7),0))))
GabrielStJohn on 10 Jul 2018 at 18:21:41

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Re: Take current time and round up to nearest quarter hour

Hello, @Anonymous!

If you have already posted your idea to the Flow Community Ideas Forum then you need to post the URL to your idea’s thread as a reply to this thread and then "Accept as Solution" on that reply so other users may vote for your Flow Idea and identify the information easily.

Thank You!

-Gabriel
Flow Community Manager
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v-yamao-msft on 05 Jul 2018 at 06:49:26

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Re: Take current time and round up to nearest quarter hour

Hi @Anonymous,

I am afraid that there is no round function can be used in flow currently, you may consider submitting a request on Flow Ideas forum for this function:

https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Flow-Ideas/idb-p/FlowIdeas

Besides, you may try to use the function if to return the value you want according to the existing time. Please take this doc for more details about the function:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/workflow-definition-language-functions-reference

Best regards,

Mabel Mao