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Is there any notion of rounding an `Instant` or `LocalDateTime` to a specific `DateTimeUnit`? Is that a reasonable thing to want? I might be reaching for the wrong thing right now.

Some context: I'm trying to implement a scheduler like thing that can _execute a certain task at the beginning of a (second|minute|hour|day|week|months|year) in a given time zone_.

My approach to this is `delay` based, so I need to work out the amount of time between `now` and the beginning of a day, week, month, quarter, etc.

Some example schedules might be

1. Execute a task at the beginning of every (second, minute, hour)
2. Execute a task every 12 hours aligned to midnight and noon in a given time zone 
3. Execute a task every calendar day at midnight in a specific time zone

‘rounding’ time is also called ‘truncating’, which might help you find a workaround:

• <https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C01923PC6A0/p1683729951821599>
• <https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-datetime/issues/235>

Oh yeah this is great. Thanks for the tip!