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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!mn6.swip.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!hole.news.pipex.net!pipex!bowl.news.pipex.net!pipex!usenet From: geoff.cox@dial.pipex.com (Geoff Cox) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: localtime - how does it work? Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:23:09 GMT Organization: Micro Active Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32b8149a.2202642@newnews.dial.pipex.com> Reply-To: geoff.cox@dial.pipex.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ak195.du.pipex.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99g/32.339 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:1830 Hello, I am trying to write a little perl code so that I can read from a file on a unix web server each day at say 13.00 hrs and email the contents to someone....... How do I do this? I have only remote access to this computer so I guess that I can start the script as a background program with ./code.pl & and log off, but not clear how to use localtime etc. I guess again that I need to set a loop going which looks at the time (hours) and when it sees 13 it jumps out and opens the file etc and then overwrites the file and waits for the next 13...? Would appreciate an email copy of any thoughts.... Cheers Geoff