I have a service which I built using Win32::Daemon::Simple. Thanks to the many monks who helped me with that effort. Now I have a relatively small but annoying problem with the daemon's callback sub. I have set up a 1 minute interval. However, the interval slows by about 1 second each interval. The result is that an event I want to happen on a particular minute may get skipped as the callback goes from 00:59 to 02:00. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to slew the daemons timer so that it is back in synch?

I know that there is the option of runnning the loop outside of the daemon, but if I wanted to do that, I wouldn't need the daemon to begin with. I like the clean implementation using the daemon, as my code only has to do its job, and needn't worry about "housekeeping". Is there a way to nudge the daemon back in line?

In reply to Time Drift when using Win32::Daemon::Simple by rah

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