Time-Based Conditionals?

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Re: Time-Based Conditionals? by jaldhar (Vicar) on Aug 27, 2004 at 16:37 UTC
Sounds like Schedule::Cron is what you need. -- જલધર	[reply]
Re^2: Time-Based Conditionals? by csuhockey3 (Curate) on Aug 27, 2004 at 16:54 UTC
Or use Schedule::Cronchik if whatever you are building uses CGI.	[reply]
Re: Time-Based Conditionals? by doowah2004 (Monk) on Aug 27, 2004 at 17:02 UTC
You could set up a cron job to run the script on the given day. Or if you do not mind having a perlscript always running, you can use select() to pause the script, then check to see what day it is. select( undef,undef,undef,86400); would pause for 1 day (60 * 60 * 24)s in a day. Date::Calc is good for calandar manipulations.	[reply]
Re^2: Time-Based Conditionals? by Spidy (Chaplain) on Aug 27, 2004 at 17:41 UTC
This is assuming that I'm using CGI, and printing out some html. I'm trying to figure out a way to have it print out code on a certain day, for example October 12th. How would I first check to see what day/time it was, and then do something based on the code? I'm fairly certain that doing something would just be a simply matter of putting something inside the conditional, but..? My Website	[reply]
Re^3: Time-Based Conditionals? by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Aug 27, 2004 at 18:05 UTC
See `localtime()` or `gmtime()`. You could compare the results of the returned array to some parameters. --MidLifeXis	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Time-Based Conditionals? by Spidy (Chaplain) on Aug 27, 2004 at 19:30 UTC