> It must be cummulative error over 10s of thousands of seconds.

Just so, and depends on howm many other processes are running,
how busy the CPU is etc.

> bodge (& cron or at are better) but I suppose I could calculate
seconds
> to 8:05 sleep(seconds*0.95), re calculate secs to 8:05
sleep(seconds)
> which should reduce the error to almost zip.

Thats the approach I suggest in my otther email :-)

Alan G

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