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microfortnight
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. 1/1000000 of the fundamental unit of time in the Furlong/Firkin/Fortnight
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system of measurement; 1.2096 sec. (A furlong is 1/8th of a mile; a firkin
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is 9 imperial gallons; the mass unit of the system is taken to be a firkin
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of water). The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters that you
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can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these is TIMEPROMPTWAIT, the
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time the system will wait for an operator to set the correct date and time
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at boot if it realizes that the current value is bogus. This time is
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specified in microfortnights! Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20
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minutes) and nanofortnight have also been reported.
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