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Old 06-29-2009
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Why not use cron or at to schedule your code? Those are built to run commands or scripts at exactly the right time.

Plus, sleep(1) is NOT guaranteed to sleep exactly one second.