Hallo,
Oh. I'm using Access '97 and it says this:
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Minute Function
Returns a Variant (Integer) specifying a whole number between 0 and 59, inclusive, representing the minute of the hour.
Syntax
Minute(time)
The required time argument is any Variant, numeric expression, string expression, or any combination, that can represent a time. If time contains Null, Null is returned.
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Minute Function Example
This example uses the Minute function to obtain the minute of the hour from a specified time. In the development environment, the time literal is displayed in short time format using the locale settings of your code.
Dim MyTime, MyMinute
MyTime = #4:35:17 PM# ' Assign a time.
MyMinute = Minute(MyTime) ' MyMinute contains 35.
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Hope that helps, I suppose you could also use Val(Format$(Now(),"n"

).
- Frink