On some systems, this can also be used like \fBnvram-wakeup\fP, waking from states
like ACPI S4 (suspend to disk). Not all systems have persistent media that are
appropriate for such suspend modes.
+.PP
+Note that alarm functionality depends on hardware; not every RTC is able to setup
+an alarm up to 24 hours in the future.
+.PP
+The suspend setup maybe be interrupted by active hardware; for example wireless USB
+input devices that continue to send events for some fraction of a second after the
+return key is pressed.
+.B rtcwake
+tries to avoid this problem and it waits to terminal to settle down before
+entering a system sleep.
+
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BR \-A , " \-\-adjfile " \fIfile
.TP
.BR \-\-date " \fItimestamp"
Set the wakeup time to the value of the timestamp. Format of the
-timestmap can be any of the following:
+timestamp can be any of the following:
.TS
tab(|);
-left l2 l.
+l2 l.
YYYYMMDDhhmmss
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm|(seconds will be set to 00)
.BR date (1)
.SH AVAILABILITY
The rtcwake command is part of the util-linux package and is available from the
-.UR ftp://\:ftp.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
+.UR https://\:www.kernel.org\:/pub\:/linux\:/utils\:/util-linux/
Linux Kernel Archive
.UE .