Help with time cycles

[wbarrett26]

I was wondering if anyone could point me to a good resource for cycles based on a period of time. Like if you have a variable and want to add a constant, or random number, every 1 hour how would i do this. Looked at hotscripts for any examples but i think "cycles" might be a bad search term. Thanks in advance

[A7RSTR7K3]

What language are you trying to do this with... You can do it in flash (I know thats not server side) by using intervals. But ya... need to know a language... ColdFusion you can have run scripts on a schedule.

[Cybernoid]

crontab

[wbarrett26]

thanks, exactly what i needed, may be backl for another question in a couple of days