Hi wisdom monks,
Im trying to write someting that will a number of display messages based on systemclock, ill try to explain.

Say i got 10 messages and i want to show one every 5 seconds. so 1 message shows when the time is between 0:00 and 0:04seconds;
2nd message will show 0:05 <-> 0:09 seconds. ... message 10 will show 0:45 <-> 0:49.
then message 1 will show again from 0:50 <-> 0:54. 2 will be 0:55 <-> 0:59
when minute 1 starts i want it to start with message 3, thats 1:00 <-> 1:04
My question is how do i calculate this :)
hope this makes sence, thanks in advanced,
Wire64

dont have much that will do the above but will show you where i'am at now.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# display stuff on systemclock

use Switch;

# Get current date & time
my ($tsec,$tmin,$thour,$tday,$tmonth,$tyear,$twday,$tyday,$tisdst) = l
+ocaltime(time);

$showitems=10;
$delay=5;

$totalshowtime=$showitems*$delay;

#calulate how many minutes it will take to complete
$showminutes = $totalshowtime / 60;

#remove everthing behind the . so we get a round number
$showminutes =~ s/(\d)\.\d*/$1/;

switch ($showminutes) {
        case /0/ {
        my $number= $tsec / ($showitems * $delay) ;
        print "$number\n";
        #print "0\n";
        }

        case /1/ {print "1\n";
        }
else {print "-$showminutes- did not match any\n";}
}

print "$showminutes | $totalshowtime =  $showitems * $delay";
print "\n$tsec $tmin";
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