[lug] shutdown question

[Nick Golder]

On 2006-01-20 10:51 -0700, 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.
> -------------
> 
> 

I imagine that 6:00 would be AM and 18:00 would be PM.

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-Nick Golder