from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
microfortnight
n.
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.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
microfortnight
One millionth 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 1/4th of a barrel;
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 realises 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.