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One of the problems with Guix is that it is missing an “at” command because it does not have an atd daemon. I figured out that you need to use shepherd's timer service instead. To start up the timer service, you need to add it to ~/.config/shepherd/init.scm

In that add the following lines

(use-modules (shepherd service timer))
(register-services
 (list (timer-service)))

after that, you need to restart herd, and then you can run the service by doing

 herd schedule timer at HH:MM:SS -- COMMAND NAME HERE

You also may need to start up shepherd as a user if you haven't done that already.

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