how about this.  can I use the time features to go by minutes or seconds?

if ($core_genius->inTimeSpan( "**:**:00 - **:**:02") )    return 1;
if ($core_genius->inTimeSpan( "**:**:03 - **:**:05") )    return 2;
if ($core_genius->inTimeSpan( "**:**:06 - **:**:09") )    return 3;

?

I could just load modules randomly based on the second of the load.

Does jomgenius allow variables like that?

How about this instead:

$now_seconds = getdate("s");

if ($now_seconds ("00 - 19" ))    return 1;
else if ($now_seconds ("20 - 39" ))    return 2;
else if ($now_seconds ("40 - 59" ))    return 3;

Is that syntax valid?

Hi - just a quick note about times. What you have above probably works, but it's quite easy to mistakes with time and date calculations, particularly where there are leading zeros.

For the record, I'd do it like this to be on the safe side, without any leading zeros, doing everything as integers instead of strings:

$sec = (int)date("s");
if ($sec < 20) return 71;
if ($sec >= 20 and $sec < 40) return 228;
return 269; // it only gets here if it's not one of the other 2.

Cheers,
Stephen

No, that's unnecessary (though not wrong). The seconds can only be 0-59, so all possible values are covered in the 3 statements.