>Say I wanted to time out a form. I call my foo sub and want to time this form out in approx (dynamic) minutes. Say I call the (VB time function) and try to say MyTimeOut time = (VB time function) + (dynamic) minutes. Then in the form I can ease the system strain by setting my timer to check the actual time every 65 seconds for (VB Time function) to => MyTimeOut vice an incrementer variable.

Couldn't you use DateAdd() ?

So, dteNewDate = DateAdd("m", 10, Now) would add 10 minutes to now.