At allows fairly complex time specifications, extending the POSIX.2 standard. It accepts times of the
form HH:MM to run a job at a specific time of day. (If that time is already past, the next day is as‐
sumed.) You may also specify midnight, noon, or teatime (4pm) and you can have a time-of-day suffixed
with AM or PM for running in the morning or the evening. You can also say what day the job will be run,
by giving a date in the form month-name day with an optional year, or giving a date of the form
MMDD[CC]YY, MM/DD/[CC]YY, DD.MM.[CC]YY or [CC]YY-MM-DD. The specification of a date must follow the
specification of the time of day. You can also give times like now + count time-units, where the time-
units can be minutes, hours, days, or weeks and you can tell at to run the job today by suffixing the
time with today and to run the job tomorrow by suffixing the time with tomorrow.
For example, to run a job at 4pm three days from now, you would do at 4pm + 3 days, to run a job at
10:00am on July 31, you would do at 10am Jul 31 and to run a job at 1am tomorrow, you would do at 1am to‐
morrow.
If you specify a job to absolutely run at a specific time and date in the past, the job will run as soon
as possible. For example, if it is 8pm and you do a at 6pm today, it will run more likely at 8:05pm.