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.
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.
Related:
- 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... - nanofortnight n.
[Adelaide University] 1 fortnight
10^(-9), or about 1.2 msec. This unit was used ... - nanofortnight: [Adelaide University] n. 1 fortnight
10^-9, or about 1.2 msec. This unit was used largely... - rc file: /R-C fi:l/ [UNIX: from the startup script
`/etc/rc'
but this is commonly believed to have been named ... - epoch: [UNIX: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n
The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating... - random adj.
1. Unpredictable (closest to mathematical
definition)
weird. "The system's been behaving pretty randomly... - wall time n.
(also `wall clock time') 1. `Real world'
time (what the clock on the wall shows)
as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. ... - wall time: n. (also `wall clock time') 1. `Real world' time (what
the clock on the wall shows)
as opposed to the system clock's idea of time. ... - epoch n.
[Unix: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] The
time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and
timestamp values
Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT...
