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Old 08-08-2008
at scheduling executes job immediately
Hi all,

I am trying to schedule a one time job using at. First I do a `date` command to capture current date

Code:
[myhost]$ date
Fri Aug  8 15:53:20  # shows current date
[myhost]$ at -t 16:00 today #schedule command to run at 4pm
at> command1
at> <EOT> #after pressing Crtl D
job 6 at 2008-08-08 15:53

and the command1 run immediately.

I schedule the job to run at 4pm. But it instead runs at 3.53pm, which was the time i was scheduling it. Does anybody know why?
# 2  
Old 08-08-2008
It's wrong format.

The correct format is this below.
(man at)

Quote:
−t time_arg
Submit the job to be run at the time speci*
fied by the time_arg option argument, which
must have the same format as specified for
the touch(1) utility's −t time option argu*
ment ([[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm).
So you should execute this.
#schedule command to run at 4pm
Code:
at -t `date +%m%d`1600

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