1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time in the
Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A
furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin is 9 imperial gallons; the mass
unit of the system is taken to be a firkin of water). The VMS
operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you can set with
the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the
system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time at
boot if it realizes that the current value is bogus. This time is
specified in microfortnights!
Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) and
{nanofortnight} have also been reported.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {attoparsec}{micro-}{nanofortnight}]