Microfortnight

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  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 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 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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  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.