L~R, thanks for the full framework! I was headed down the same path and manipulated the examples from the Panther to work with 24 hours per day: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my %base_hours = ( sun => 0, mon => 24, tue => 48, wed => 72 , thu => 
+96, fri => 120, sat => 144 );

my $vector = interval_parse("Sat 9-17, Sun 9-17");

my $bits = unpack("b*", $vector);

print $bits, "\n";

sub interval_parse {
    my ($interval_sequence) = @_;
    my ($time_range) = "";
    foreach my $day_hours (split /,/, $interval_sequence) {
       my ($day, $from, $to) = ($day_hours =~ /([A-Za-z]+).*(\d+)-(\d+
+)/);
       my $base = $base_hours{lc $day};
       $from += $base;
       $to += $base;
       
       for (my $i = $from; $i < $to;  $i++) {
           vec($time_range, $i, 1) = 1;
       }
    }
    return($time_range);
}

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Thanks for the pointer!

-Nitrox

In reply to Re: Re: Representing windows of time in a string by Nitrox
in thread Representing windows of time in a string by Nitrox

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