Creat new files at the beginning of every hour

I am trying to write a VI to store data in text file. To avoid a too large file, I want to store the data in different files. I want these files to be created at the beginning of every hour. How could I achieve this?
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Hey,
Maybe you could integrate this in your code. It will increment the number in the filename every half second.
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