in reply to executing perl script at a certain time/day

The simplest way would be to do read the time through the localtime(time) function. I don't totally agree with using cron or AT. Do something like this, and your script will stay cross-platform (something I need).

... while(1) { sleep(60); @time = localtime(time); if(($time[2] == 10) && ($time[1] == 0) { #do what ever you want to do at 10am } }

I hope this helps..

Thanks!

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