I reworked your code to allow for any time periods (15mins, 30mins, 60mins, ...)

Chris

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my $interval = shift || 60;
my %hash;
while( <DATA> ) {
    
    my( $name, @times ) = split;

    # convert the 3 times into their time slot.
    # (eg) if the interval is 60 minutes (1 hour)
    # a queued time of 9:26 would be converted to 9:00.
    $_ -= $_ % ($interval * 60) for @times;

    for (my $slot = $times[0]; $slot < $times[1]; $slot += $interval *
+ 60) {
        $hash{ date($slot) }{ time_bin($slot) }{ $name }{queued}++;
    }
    
    for (my $slot = $times[1]; $slot < $times[2]; $slot += $interval *
+ 60) {
        $hash{ date($slot) }{ time_bin($slot) }{ $name }{running}++;
    }
}


{
DATE: foreach my $date ( sort keys %hash )
    {
    print_header( $date );
    my $hour_hash = $hash{ $date };
    
    HOUR: foreach my $hour ( sort keys %$hour_hash )
        {
        my $queue_hash = $hour_hash->{$hour};
        
        my $string = '';
        QUEUE: foreach my $queue ( sort keys %$queue_hash )
            {
            $string .= sprintf 
                "                         %6s  %4d     %4d\n",
                $queue, 
                $queue_hash->{$queue}{'queued'}||0, 
                $queue_hash->{$queue}{'running'}||0;
            }
        
        # add the hour last to avoid a special case
        substr( $string, 0, 5 ) = $hour;
        
       print $string, "-" x 54, "\n";
        }

    }
    
}


sub time_bin
    {
    sprintf "%02d:%02d", (localtime( $_[0] ) )[2,1];
    }
    
sub date
    {    
    my @times = localtime( $_[0] );
    
    $times[5] += 1900;
    $times[4] += 1;
    
    # join on / and make two digits for easy sorting
    return join "/", map { sprintf "%02d", $_ } @times[3,4,5];
    }

sub print_header
    {
print <<"HERE";

Date: $_[0]
Time                     Queue      Queued   Running
------------------------------------------------------
HERE
    }
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