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Updating a page strictly every minute (PHP, Perl) Archive Clock exercise that I mentioned in my last entry, I need to update the page once a minute. Exactly once a minute. At the start of the minute .<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="60; url=/clock/now.php">$togo = 61 - date("s");<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="<?= $togo ?>; url=/clock/now.php">here
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For the Clock exercise that I mentioned in my last entry, I need to update the page once a minute. Exactly once a minute. At the start of the minute.