sleep-until - sleep until a specific time and day

A Unix-utility for your shell and shell scripts that lets you sleep until a specific time.

Examples

# Sleep until 20:00, either today or tomorrow, depending on what time it is now
sleep-until "20:00"
# The same, but in 12H time
sleep-until "08:00 PM"
# Sleep until friday at 08:00
sleep-until "08:00 next friday"

License

sleep-until is Copyright © Eskild Hustvedt 2025

sleep-until is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

sleep-until is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt.