 Besides having the meaning "any obscure unit", the derived unit "furlongs per fortnight" has also served frequently in classroom examples of unit conversion and dimensional analysis.One microfortnight is equal to 1.2096 seconds.This has become a joke in computer science because in the VMS operating system, the TIMEPROMPTWAIT variable, which holds 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, is set in microfortnights.