great the maiayn calander is ending after christmas...

Old news is old. Just because the Mayan calendar ends after Xmas doesn't mean the world will end. After all, they didn't see the end of their civilisation coming.

quote Kimonio

harbin: So if we were to go off European format, since the Spanish were the ones who found the Mayans before anyone else, then the end of the world would be tomorrow?

On an exam day no less. Perfect timing. xD

No because if you're still using that format, then the 21st would be the 21st month of the year

quote Short Circuit

quote Strawberryclock

To put it simply, dates were stored with two digits. instead of 1985, you had 85.

Of course, once 2000 rolls around we don't have enough digits anymore to accurately show the date, as a computer would interpret 00 as 1900. This caused some problems in things that were very time sensitive.

But mostly work was done to prevent this, only a few small problems.

Of course, now we have to wait for the 2038 problem

Oh, right. I know about all of that, I just didn't think there was actually problems.

What's the 2038 problem? Haven't heard of that, either.

Apparently computers running out of binary digits to compute the date, would just cause it to reset to 01/01/1900.

So many years though, chances are patches and software companies will have addressed such a problem and since it doesn't affect 64bit PCs, I would really be surprised if it has any major impact unless your hardware is shit old.

EDIT: Searched World Blackout.. thought it was bollocks from the start. Doesn't mean you can't go around scaremongering and playing pranks though

People scared that a planet will collide or that there will be three days of blackouts, yet they forget that there is a giant blackout at the centre of the galaxy.