|
i remember Y2K. I made a lot of consulting money out of repairing/prepping mainframe applications to be able to deal with the calendar issue. It was not a phantom issue. Some of the things that I worked on would have been real disasters. I mean financially, liability-wise if not the "planes falling out of the sky " way. Back in 1999, we had a whole slew of systems that were a mix of old legacy mainframes and newer distributed systems. Year 2000 issues were real and needed to be attended to. The fact that there was no real issue as a result can be partly attributed to the amount of work that went on prior to the calendar turning over. Similar to the recent H1N1 non-emergency.
The 2012 thingy, however, is not the same as the real Y2K scenarios. It simply synchronizes the time on the Gregorian (our) calendar to the end of the calculated Mayan calendar. The planets will still orbit the sun after Dec 2012. We should all still be here.
The Mayans now use the Gregorian calendar, so I suspect that they will buy new ones that start on Jan 1, 2013. If they are using the old Mayan calendar, they may just restart it with V 2.0 added on. Along with the Mayans, I think that Christians believed that there was to be a second coming of Christ in the year 2000. A lot of folks assign importance to certain numbers or groups of numbers which just isn't there.
__________________
You said you didn't give a fuck about hockey
And I never saw someone say that before
You held my hand and we walked home the long way
You were loosening my grip on Bobby Orr
http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Leto_Atreides_I
|