If you have a shell account, you should be able to run crontab -e to edit your user crontab.

Just for reference, here is a low level version to execute one thing at a specific time every day (untested, from memory):

...
my $targettimetext = "13:14:15";

# Turn target time into seconds
my @tttparts = split/\:/, $targettimetext;
my $targettime = ($tttparts[0] * 3600) + ($tttparts[1] * 60) + $tttpar
+ts[2];
...

while(1) {
    # Turn the current time into seconds
    my ($sec,$min, $hour, $mday,$mon, $year, $wday,$yday, $isdst) = lo
+caltime time;
    my $nowtime = ($hour * 3600) + ($minute * 60) + $sec;
    
    # Not yet time to do things? Sleep until it is
    if($nowtime < $targettime) {
        sleep($targettime - $nowtime);
    }

    # YOUR STUFF HERE
    
    # Recalculate the current time after doing stuff
    ($sec,$min, $hour, $mday,$mon, $year, $wday,$yday, $isdst) = local
+time time;
    $nowtime = ($hour * 3600) + ($minute * 60) + $sec;
    
    # Sleep for the rest of the day
    sleep(86400 - $nowtime);
}

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Edit: Please be aware, the simplistic approach above doesn't account for all the time calculation weirdness like daylight savings time changes, leap seconds and skipped days. For that, i refer you to this excellent Tom Scott video.

perl -e 'use Crypt::Digest::SHA256 qw[sha256_hex]; print substr(sha256_hex("the Answer To Life, The Universe And Everything"), 6, 2), "\n";'

In reply to Re: Crontab replacement in Perl by cavac
in thread Crontab replacement in Perl by Anonymous Monk

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