This sounds like something you could easily do in a sproc. SQLServer gives you a GETDATE() method that returns the current time... I don't see why you can't just.
One comment: you don't want TimeSpan. Minutes, you want TimeSpan.TotalMinutes. It may well be irrelevant most of the time, but it's a logical bug at least :).
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