Is 2012 another Y2K? This page explores the reasons this might be true. Take and in depth look into the Mayan Calendar. Reconsider what you think you know about how computers reckon what date it is.

Y2K was a scare back in 1999. It was feared that all the computers in the world would crash because their calendars would interpret the year 2000 as the year 1900. 2012 is a scare based on the misinformation that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/trivia

The Mayan calendar system is made of 17 interlocking circular calendars. These 17 different circles fit together like cogged wheels in a mechanical clock or mill. There is no beginning nor end to a circular calendar. There is only the beginning of a cycle, which is the end of another cycle as the circle turns. Click on the number at the end of this section and follow the link to the Maya Tribe's own "Calendar Description and Coordination". They have a good diagram there of how their circular calendars fit together like cogged wheels. http://www.mayacalendar.com/f-cuenta.html

American Experts say there is nothing to worry about. They say that the same survivalists who were embarrassed by Y2K being "the biggest thing that never happened" will be shamed if they said anything much would happen on December 21, 2012. http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_13705734?nclick_check=1

Mayan experts also say the world will not end in 2012. They say no, the world will be transformed, but it won't end. They say the Mayan elders are angry that this is misunderstood. The Mayan experts say we are no longer in the time of the forth sun, but December 21, 2012 is the beginning of the time of the fifth sun. They say during the time of the fifth sun humans will quit being materialistic and begin to live in harmony with nature. http://www.manataka.org/page1578.html

The 2012 phenomenon closely resembles the Y2K phenomenon. Both disater predictions are based on incorrect assumptions about how someone else reckons time. The Mayan calendar is not going to end in 2012 any more than computers were going to freeze on the year 2000.

The disaster predictions for 2012 are based on an incorrect assumption that the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. It doesn't. The Mayan calendar system has 17 separate calendars. The longest spans 40 octillion years. It isn't going to end in 2012. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/

The disaster predictions for Y2K were based on the incorrect assumption that computers keep time the same way humans do. They don't. Most computers reckon what year it is by counting the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. http://www.epochconverter.com/ This is why undated e-mails get dated December 31, 1969. For the computer, December 31, 1969 is the year zero, and January 1, 2000 is just 946684800 seconds since January 1, 1970.