Putting iMac to sleep with more than one user logged on

Hi,
Our family shares the iMca with an account for each member.
They all leave them looged on all the time and we switch between each.
I want to force th eiMac to sleep between mifnight and 6 AM to save power.
When I set this up in Energy Save settings within System preferences, it will not execute and comes back with an error saying that there are other users logged on and this may cause them to lose work.
Any idea how I can force this to over ride any objections?
Thanks
SD

It sounds like you have scheduled it to shut down instead of sleep. Ensure you have selected Sleep and not Shut Down.

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