[lug] shutdown question

[Gary Hodges]

Warren Sanders wrote:
> Gary Hodges wrote:
> 
>>If I enter "shutdown -h 6:00" this afternoon will my machine shutdown
>>at 6:00 PM today or tomorrow at 6:00 AM?  I want to shut it down
>>tomorrow morning and forgot to run this test yesterday.
>>
>>Here is the appropriate portion of the man page:
>>-------------
>>The time argument can have different formats.   First,  it  can  be 
>>an absolute time in the format hh:mm, in which hh is the hour (1 or 2
>>digits) and mm is the minute of the hour (in two digits).  Second, it
>>can be  in the format +m, in which m is the number of minutes to wait.
>>The word now is an alias for +0.
>>-------------
> 
> Without testing and just my initial thought... this may just be said to
> shut down in 6 hours rather than a set time.  However if it is for a set
> time (not as a timer) most likely it would be 24 hour clock.

Playing around with it yesterday I figured out it is for a set time. 
And today I have satisfied myself that it does use a 24hr clock.  Around 
11 AM today I set my machine to shutdown at 1:00 and it went right past 
1:00 without doing anything.  For those of you in NOAA's DSRC, don't 
forget about the power outage in C and D tomorrow at 6:30!

Gary