#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Time::Local; my $start = "7:30"; my $end = "11:45"; my $interval = 15; # Assuming time is in a 24-hour format and adjusting for my timezone :) my ($start_sec,$end_sec) = map { /(\d+):(\d+)/;timelocal( 0, $2, $1, 1, 1,1970 ) } $start, $end; # In case the times cross the midnight boundary $end_sec += 86400 if ( $start_sec > $end_sec ); my $int_sec = $interval * 60; while ( $start_sec <= $end_sec ) { printf "%d:%02d\n", (localtime($start_sec))[2,1]; $start_sec += $int_sec; }