NAME

       leave — remind you when you have to leave

SYNOPSIS

       leave [[+]hhmm]

DESCRIPTION

       leave  waits until the specified time (within the next 12 hours), then reminds you that you have to leave
       by writing to the TTY that you executed leave on.

       You are reminded 5 minutes and 1 minute before the actual time, at the time, and every minute thereafter.
       When you log off, leave exits just before it would have printed the next message.

OPTIONS

       hhmm  The time of day is in the form hhmm where hh is a time in hours (on a 12 or 24 hour clock), and  mm
             are minutes.

             However,  all  times  are converted to a 12 hour clock, and assumed to be in the next 12 hours.  An
             attempt to set an alarm for farther into the future will be truncated to within the next 12 hours.

       +     If the time is preceded by ‘+’, the alarm will go off in hours and minutes from the current time.

       If no argument is given, leave prompts with "When do you have to leave?"  A reply of newline causes leave
       to exit, otherwise the reply is assumed to be a time.  This form is suitable for inclusion in a  ~/.login
       or ~/.profile.

SEE ALSO

       calendar(1), csh(1), sh(1)

HISTORY

       The leave command appeared in 3.0BSD.

BUGS

       In  the  modern  age  with  X(1) and window multiplexing programs like window(1) and screen(1), the leave
       command's reminders and admonitions might not be seen if the user has the window where leave was  started
       minimized or obscured.

       This all begs for a more general user notifications system to be implemented.

Debian                                          January 19, 2002                                        LEAVE(1)