believe it or not, given my newbyish questions, i have been programming since 1979...but i guess this is one more of those programs every programmer needs to write eventually :) actually, i did this about 5 years ago in Visual Basic (/me crosses himself) with the modem making a call on the data line to the voice line...

i would assume that joining the localtime elements would require some formatting, and that a sprintf would actually be appropriate. one should assume (or better, verify) that the wakeup time has a leading zero, if minute is a single digit.

when it comes down to it, though, i like perl arrays... that's why i did it the way i did ;)