in reply to Alternatives to Mixing Alarm and Sleep

is there a good CPAN module that handles this?

Yes, they are called event-loop systems. See POE or Glib

See Roll your own Event-loop for an example of Glib. POE comes with a cookbook of examples. You want to setup a timer.

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