Re: Sleep Function

Make sure you do set_time_limit(0). On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Josh Seward wrote: > I have been having tourble with boht the sleep and usleep function. I can only get them to > 40 sec and then they will cut off. This is even true with the micro seconds in the usleep function. > > Here is my code: > > do{ > $hour = date("G"); > $minute = date("i"); > $sec = date("s"); > print "$hour:$minute:$sec\n"; > usleep(100); // or us sleep(1); > }while($minute != "00"); > > This will stop on the 40th sec. Its not the 40th loop becuase usleep loops hundreds of > times but only quite on the 40th second. > > I am trying to set up a program to run every hour and this loop finds the hour on the hour > then continues to run.Incase someone starts the script say at 7:30. It will wait till 8:00 to run > the rest of the script. If there is a better way to do this please tell!!!! > > Thanks, > > Josh Seward > js389599@ohiou.edu > > -Andrei Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. -Author unknown