microfortnight
microfortnight
The VMS operating system has a lot of tuning parameters thatyou can set with the SYSGEN utility, and one of these isTIMEPROMPTWAIT, the time the system will wait for an operatorto set the correct date and time at boot if it realises thatthe current value is bogus. This time is specified inmicrofortnights!
Multiple uses of the millifortnight (about 20 minutes) andnanofortnight have also been reported.