Scheduling a procedure

Hi Guys,
I want to execute a procedure I have created at a certain time. I mean I want to schedule a procedure to execute at a specified time.
Please help me in doing this? If there any package available in oracle to set the execution time of a procedure.
Regards,
Imran Baig

Thanks for the replies.
I am using Oracle 9i Release 1.
We have Oracle on both linux and windows operating system.
Now what is the suitable way to schedule a execution of a procedure.
Regards,
Imran

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trusha wrote:
Dear All,
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