NAME
alarm, runat - alarm clock
SYNOPSIS
alarm [ time ] [ day ] [ month ] [ year ]
alarm +minutes
runat [ time ] [ day ] [ month ] [ year ] : command
runat +minutes : command
DESCRIPTION
Alarm prints a message like:
Warning, the time is Fri Jun 1 10:36:41 1979
at the specified time at the current terminal.
The format of the time arguments are as follows:
time: [ hour [ : minute [ : second ] ] ] [ modifier ]
modifier: am | pm | noon | midday | midnight | now
day: ( dayofweek [ week ] ) | 1..31
dayofweek: sunday | ... | saturday | tomorrow | today
month: january | ... | december
year: 1970..2038
The arguments time , day , month
and year are order-independent,
and words may be shortened to a non-ambiguous
abbreviation.
As the time must be in the
future, unspecified time , day , month
and year arguments default to the ‘next’ hour,
day, month or year
as necessary; otherwise the current time, day, month and
year are
used.
If alarm has a single argument
‘+x’ where x is an integer, the
alarm will be set x minutes from the current time.
Runat performs a similar
function except that command is executed
rather than a message being printed.
EXAMPLES
alarm friday week 5pm
alarm Jan 1 17:00 1980
alarm tomorrow 4:00
alarm +8
SEE ALSO
at(1).