How to add minutes to my current time

[Logistix]

Hello all, I'm pretty new to QlikSense and I need to add a variable to add 30 minutes to my current time. The problem is I found out two different ways for this:

Option1. 

LET vDate10min = Date(Now() - MakeTime(00,30),'DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm')

Option2. 

LET vDate10min = Date(Now() - 30/24/60,'DD/MM/YYYY hh:mm')

Both one returns me the same, in fact, I checked the result of  30/24/60 and Num(Maketime(00,30)) and it's the same too.

Can someone explain the second option? I don't understand why 30/24/60 is the same to Num(MakeTime(00,30))

Is it one way better than another?

[brunobertels · Accepted solution]

hi 

30/24/60 help to convert numeric value into minutes time value

30 is the number of minutes you want to convert into time value that is divided by 

24 ( hours in a day) 

60 (minutes in an hour) 

So 

30/24/60 give 0.2 

if you use time(0.2) it will give 00:30:00 

then maketime(00,30) creates the same 00:30:00 

hop it helps