On Mon, 1 Jun 2015, Richard Mace wrote: > Hi All, > What's the best way of detecting what Now - 5 minutes is? > Effectively, I want to do the following: > > 5MinsAgo: TDateTime; > > 5MinsAgo := Now -5 minutes? Uses DateUtils; Var N : TDateTime; begin N:=Now; N:=IncMinutes(N,-5); end; Or somesuch. Michael.