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Try shutdown --help for more information. – ændrük Jan 27 '11 at 22:15
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You want -P, not -p. It's case sensitive. Also realize that you'll have to be root to shutdown like that.

For the time, there are different ways to enter. Taken from man shutdown:

       TIME  may  have  different  formats, the most common is simply the word
   'now' which will bring the system down immediately.  Other  valid  for‐
   mats  are  +m,  where m is the number of minutes to wait until shutting
   down and hh:mm which specifies the time on the 24hr clock.

Example:

$ sudo shutdown -P 20:30
[sudo] password for ward: 

Broadcast message from ward@sekhmet
(/dev/pts/0) at 20:14 ...

The system is going down for power off in 16 minutes!
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