# Calculate with msg.date from email in node
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/calculate-with-msg-date-from-email-in-node/48993
**Category:** General
**Created:** [28 July 2021 04:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/calculate-with-msg-date-from-email-in-node/48993 "2021-07-28T04:57:51Z")
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### Author:  [@tfuchs1987](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/tfuchs1987)
#### Post date: [28 July 2021 04:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/calculate-with-msg-date-from-email-in-node/48993/1 "2021-07-28T04:57:52Z")
Hi Forum, I try to calculate with the msg.date object from the email in node
- node-red-node-email v1.12.3
`msg.date = "2021-07-28T04:32:28.000Z"`
Is there a way to querry just the emails recieved in the last X minutes? I hope I dont need to calculate the seconds until 1970 myself 😄
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### Author:  [@rko](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/rko)
#### Post date: [28 July 2021 07:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/calculate-with-msg-date-from-email-in-node/48993/2 "2021-07-28T07:42:01Z")
You could try something like this in a function node:
```auto
let minutes = 50; // email can't be older than 50 minutes
let age = (new Date() - new Date(msg.date)) / (1000 * 60); // age in minutes
// only return if it's not too old
if(age < minutes){
return msg;
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [11 August 2021 07:42 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/calculate-with-msg-date-from-email-in-node/48993/3 "2021-08-11T07:42:33Z")
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