in reply to Scheduling a shell script to run every wednesday at 10 AM with perl without cron

Well you could set alarm , but this would mean you have to make sure that your Perl script is continuously running (in exactly one instance to avoid duplication)

update

probably of interest: Schedule::Cron

Cheers Rolf
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