Function to use withtol but only forward in time?

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I have a timetable where the rows are datetimes. I then have a second timetable and I want to match the values in the second timetable to the first, but only where the times match within a certain time range. I want to include only those rows from the second timetable which occur within 2 minutes of the datetimes in the first. I can do this using withtol, but then I get + and - 2 minutes. How do I set the tolerance to only include 2 minutes after?
tol=minutes(2);
%we get a value for boat counts if photo was captured 2 minutes either side
%of hydrophone recording
for a=1:length(sites)
dBtable=dBcalcs.(sites{a});
counts_subset_rows=contains(boat_counts.Site(:),sites{a});
counts_subset=boat_counts(counts_subset_rows,:);
%select the times in boat_counts that match detections times with tolerance
tmatch_tt1=counts_subset(withtol(dBtable.DateTime,tol),:).DateTime;
%extract rows in boat_counts that are within 2 min of hydrophone recordings
[Lia,Loc]=ismember(tmatch_tt1,counts_subset.DateTime)
counts_subset_new=counts_subset(Loc,:);
%change detections datetimes to closest datetime of images
%(specific datetime of hydrophone recording remains in spectrogram filename
%of each row)
dBtable=table2timetable(dBtable);
tt2_matched=retime(dBtable,tmatch_tt1,'nearest');
%use synchronize to join the matched rows
new_table=synchronize(tt2_matched,counts_subset_new);
new_table.DateTime=datetime(new_table.DateNum,'ConvertFrom','datenum');
dBcalcs_CameraCounts.(sites{a})=new_table;
end

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