deleting "power on" using pmset

Now that we must use pmset in Terminal to set scheduled events, and not System Settings / Energy Saver on a Mac, I have been unable to stop my computer from waking at 6AM.

From pmset "-g sched" the following is displayed:

Repeating power events:

wakepoweron at 6:00AM every day

sleep at 10:00PM every day

I get an error saying " Badly formatted date" when I type "pmset sched cancel wake MTWRFSU “6:00AM"

What would be the correct format to delete that power event?

iMac 27 inch 2019, Ventura

iMac 27″, macOS 13.2

Posted on Mar 23, 2023 9:03 AM

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BiknSwans Author

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Mar 25, 2023 11:38 AM in response to hcsitas

Thank you. I don't have an issue with disabling Sleep, but with disabling Wake. I don't think I understand your post.

I think I have done everything correctly, but nothing I can think of to try helps. So, I don't think you or anyone else can help other than Apple. I thought for sure that 'cancelall' would do the trick, but it didn't.

I have confirmed that Carbon Copy Cloner scheduled events still take place, even though they no longer show up after executing sudo pmset -g sched, so at least that went well. Maybe cancelall no longer works at all.

I certainly do appreciate your attempts to help, and want to thank you again.

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