how to work with windows time?

[NeKuDa]

I want my script to start running every hour 3 minutes before it ends. how can I program such a thing? and does it involve sampling the system time every second or theres a better way?

[JerryD]

Well I don't know how you get a script to run BEFORE it ends, but you don't want to do that in the script anyway. Just use Window's Scheduler.

[guwguw]

I want my script to start running every hour 3 minutes before it ends. how can I program such a thing? and does it involve sampling the system time every second or theres a better way?

Have a look at adlibenable() ...

[GEOSoft]

The Windows Sceduler is the best way but if you want your script to just sit idle for 57 minutes then run a function then

While 1
   Do
     Sleep(10000)
   Until @Min = 57 and @Sec <=11
   Function()
Wend

EDIT: That checks every 10 seconds If you just want to check every minute Then change sleep(10000) to Sleep(60000).

Edited December 21, 2007 by GEOSoft