SYNOPSIS pmset schedule [cancel | cancelall] type date+time [owner] pmset repeat cancel pmset repeat type weekdays time SCHEDULED EVENT ARGUMENTS pmset allows you to schedule system sleep, shutdown, wakeup and/or power on. "schedule" is for setting up one-time power events, and "repeat" is for setting up daily/weekly power on and power off events. Note that you may only have one pair of repeating events scheduled - a "power on" event and a "power off" event. For sleep cycling applications, pmset can schedule a "relative" wakeup or poweron to occur in seconds from the end of system sleep/shutdown, but this event cannot be cancelled and is inherently imprecise. type - one of sleep, wake, poweron, shutdown, wakeorpoweron date/time - "MM/dd/yy HH:mm:ss" (in 24 hour format; must be in quotes) time - HH:mm:ss weekdays - a subset of MTWRFSU ("M" and "MTWRF" are valid strings) owner - a string describing the person or program who is scheduling this one-time power event (optional) EXAMPLES Schedules the system to automatically wake from sleep on July 4, 2016, at 8PM. pmset schedule wake "07/04/16 20:00:00" Schedules a repeating shutdown to occur each day, Tuesday through Saturday, at 11AM. pmset repeat shutdown TWRFS 11:00:00 Schedules a repeating wake or power on event every tuesday at 12:00 noon, and a repeating sleep event every night at 8:00 PM. pmset repeat wakeorpoweron T 12:00:00 sleep MTWRFSU 20:00:00 Cancels all scheduled system sleep, shutdown, wake, and power on events. pmset repeat cancel