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| wiggy:
Well it looks like the Mayan Empire was on UTC-6, or US Central Time Zone. That would make it about 7:20 PM as of this post. We'll see... |
| Arseen:
--- Quote from: wiggy on December 21, 2012, 08:21:05 PM ---Well it looks like the Mayan Empire was on UTC-6, or US Central Time Zone. That would make it about 7:20 PM as of this post. We'll see... --- End quote --- Yes but we don't know which time they used , or which dates they used. We use modern time and dates, but but what did they use? |
| Forte:
its all made up horse shit, which is too bad since I was hoping the planet would explode today. oh well, now I'll wait for the year 2038 problem to kill us all like Y2K did oh wait |
| Dr.Agon:
--- Quote from: Forte on December 22, 2012, 12:26:09 AM ---its all made up horse shit, which is too bad since I was hoping the planet would explode today. oh well, now I'll wait for the year 2038 problem to kill us all like Y2K did oh wait --- End quote --- wait, whats supposedly happening in 2038? |
| JDavis:
--- Quote from: Dr.Agon on December 22, 2012, 01:06:00 AM ---wait, whats supposedly happening in 2038? --- End quote --- Short version: Computers normally tell time by counting the seconds since 00:00:00 January 1st 1970, UTC. At 03:14:08 January 19 2038, any computers using a signed 32-bit integer to keep track of time will run out of digits, flipping over into negative, and resulting in the time being interpreted as 20:45:52 December 13th 1901. Long version: Wikipedia article |
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