2012 moved?

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I was just wondering if anyone heard about the "2012" date being moved to 2116 or something like that. Is that true or is that more internet BS

2012 moved?

jack (guest) 23 Apr 2011 18:09

I was just wondering if anyone heard about the "2012" date being moved to 2116 or something like that. Is that true or is that more internet BS like the whole 2012 thing in general.
Thanks in advance

Re: 2012 moved?

3WMElliott 23 Apr 2011 18:46

You could move it to 2,000,012 and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference, it'd still be based on nonsense.

jack (guest) 23 Apr 2011 18:53

I know its nonsense but I was just wondering if anybody really knows when the calendar ends considering the different dates going around the web or are they all random guesses

3WMElliott 23 Apr 2011 19:08

There was a period towards the end of last year where someone (whose name completely escapes me) argues that the calendar could be off by 50-100 years, as far as I'm aware though that doesn't seem to have made too much ground so I don't know how accurate it was. May well edit this comment with a link or two, unless someone else can remember what I'm on about here.

The 2012 date has stuck since the 1950s I think, so yeah, with more knowledge maybe it's off, maybe it's not, as you know it wouldn't make a difference either way.

jack (guest) 23 Apr 2011 19:26

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/mayan-calendars-2012-doomsday-prophecy-wrong/story?id=11926347&page=2

Is this the link you were talking about? I remember seeing it awhile ago but I guess it never caught on. Gerardo Aldana is the man that claimed the 50-100 year off date

Re: 2012 moved?

obaeyens 23 Apr 2011 19:01

I remember that 2116 was a more scientific accurate date that the Mayan calender would end.

Reality is that the end of the Mayan calender is just a guess. No one knows for sure.
And I doubt that 2012 would be an accurate end of the Mayan calendar since it is astronomically very boring year.
I still think they just took that date so it sounded like a cool date because of numerology.
It might also already have happened back in 17xx.

jack (guest) 23 Apr 2011 19:08

I figured it was a guess but what is numerically cool about 2012? Just seems like another year to me

obaeyens 23 Apr 2011 20:54

Well you have these symmetric numbers 21 12 2012 (if you ignore 20)
I would have chosen 21/12/2112 but of course people would not buy your books in a short time.

jack (guest) 23 Apr 2011 21:32

Haha no they wouldn't. Are you from the US because your date '21/12/2112' is not the way we use it. m/d/y

Re: 2012 moved?

bikenbeer2000 23 Apr 2011 19:25

It's not that it's been 'moved' it's just the fact that there are many different possible correlations between the Mayan Long Count and the Gregorian Calendar. It's all down to which investigator is thought to provide the most convincing evidence that their estimate is correct. The most widely accepted version is the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (GMT) correlation which places Long Count date 13.0.0.0.0 on 21st December 2012.
Wikipedia lists a total of 27 possible correlations here. The +2CR and the Bohm correlations give dates of 26th November 2116 and 14th December 2116 respectively. Whether these particular estimates have gained any more credence recently, I wouldn't know.

Re: 2012 moved?

obaeyens 23 Apr 2011 20:55

The most widely accepted version is the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson (GMT) correlation which places Long Count date 13.0.0.0.0 on 21st December 2012.

Because it is hyped, not because it is the real one.

jack (guest) 23 Apr 2011 21:29

And it's hyped because it's the closest one that would relate to us and not some distant one no-one can make money off of?

obaeyens 23 Apr 2011 23:01

That is what I think.
27 possible dates and the media concentrates on that one date only.

jack (guest) 23 Apr 2011 23:54

That's the media for ya. ;)