Losing track of time

[Howard Bornstein]

I've got a simple reminder program that takes a number (representing 
minutes) and plays a chime when that many minutes is up.

The reminder script is:

on reminder
  global SendID
  
  put fld "TheTime" into timer
  send reminder to me in timer*60 seconds  
  put the result into sendID
  play "chime2.wav"
  
end reminder


The problem is that, for example, if I set the timer to chime every hour, 
I am losing about 5 seconds each time I cycle through. Originally, this 
was because I had the play "chime2.wav" command before the send reminder 
command. So it would play the chime, which takes several seconds, before 
resetting the time.

But now I've switched the order to the above handler and I'm *still* 
getting this lost time per cycle.

Is it possible that the play command somehow stops the internal timer of 
the send command? This seems highly unlikely but I can't think what else 
would be causing this delay, which pushes me further past the hour as the 
cycles continue.

Any ideas?

Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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