Frank and Ernest by Thaves for March 15, 2012

[facepalm] Am I the only person on this website who has actually READ the Mayan calendar?

Toured the Mayan ruins in Cancun recently…. The tour guide said the Mayan educated elite kept their knowledge to themselves…. When the Aztecs attacked them…. the elite ran or were killed… The Aztecs burned the Mayan records… so most knowledge was lost…..! ? !

Nothing happened during Y2K, when the year became a round number. There is no difference between that and the Mayan calendar reaching a round number in December. There will be no Mayan Apocalypse. Debunking complete.

I remember a cartoon (might have been F&E) with the stonecarver standing with his calendar in front of the king and answers “Because I ran out of room!”

As fo Y2K, Kea and SCAATY are absolutely correct. The problem was real and it was a computer programming problem, not a numerology or calendar problem.

Programmers working in the 1960s and 1970s used two digits for the year to save precious bits, and everyone assumed that the software would be replaced within ten years anyway — so, no worries. Do you remember what Ben Franklin said about “assume”? Yep, that software was still in use 30 and 40 years later as the year 2000 approached, and people began to awaken to the problems an ambiguous century would raise.

The problem first manifested itself in the late 1980s when new shipments of stuff received with an expiration date of “00” or “01” were immediately tagged for disposal by the automated inventory system. Fortunately, the warehousemen used common sense and notified the higher-ups that there was a problem, and the automated inventory system got fixed.

2012 is not the end of the world, just the end of a cycle. We “end a cycle” every Dec. 31. It’s called New Years. The Mayans had a longer calendar, thats all.

Actually, their calendar had several cycles within cycles and they all repeated. It is like some biblomancers who think the Bible was nonsense until they came along to demonstrate its predictions for their lifetime. Egotism knows no time nor place.

Doesn’t take into account leap years. That adjustment would make this year 2018. The relevancy of any implications in the Mayan calendar is moot.

Only God knows when the world will end. I’m not a Fundamentalist, I’m a Born-Again Christian. I believe the Bible where Jesus points out the end times in Matthew chapter 24.

The first spreadsheet programs for IBM machines used a day counting system. Time was a fraction of a day, all very logical.

Day 1 was 1/1/1980 because the IBM PC was released in early 1980. No Y2K trouble there.

I also experienced glitches with Y2K. It was a bit embarrassing to have my new debit card declined every time I tried to use it in ’99 because it expired after 2000