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Of course, this is drifting away from Perl, but in the spirit of the Right Tool for The Right Job, cron knows all about weekdays and time slots. I would use cron (or at, which can do that stuff under NT) with the following crontab entry to ensure that it checks every 5 minutes during the week, from 7:00h to 20:00h, monday through friday : 

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 7-20 * * 1-5

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Note: I didn't check that line and also I only worked from the crontab (5) manpage. Usually this means that some tweaking is required afterwards.

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(ar0n) RE (4): Exec'd perl running wild on cpu-time
by ar0n (Priest) on Nov 13, 2000 at 19:45 UTC
    Instead of 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 you can also write */5 for every 5 minutes: 
    */5 7-20 * * 1-5

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