Re: Correct usage of "-t" in shutdown?

[Burhan Hanoglu <burhanoglu@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Alex Lardner <linuxtux37@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am stumped over how to use -t during shutdown. I tried:
>
> shutdown -t 60 System going down in one minute!
>
> and
>
> shutdown -t 60 now System going down in one minute!
>
> but neither worked as expected. Help me, please!

What is the expectation? If it is to shutdown after a minute, replace
"now" with actual time when you want the system to shutdown. For
example:

shutdown -h 12:34 System going down in one minute!

For further information;

man shutdown

Regards,
Burhan