Here’s the thing: 21st December 2012 represents a fairly major digit rollover in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar. It’s the Mayan Y2K. 12.19.19.17.19 will roll over to 13.0.0.0.0. That is all.

We don’t use Mayan software. We don’t use it because the original engineers who created that software were wiped out five hundred years ago and you can’t get the support contracts anymore. Even if we did all use Maya OS, we’d just patch all the vulnerable systems and it would be a non-event like Y2K was. And even if we didn’t do that, the failure of every computer on Earth would not bring about the fall of human civilisation because well over fifty percent of human civilisation still doesn’t rely on computers.

The reason I’m talking about computing is because this is the only way that a major calendar digit rollover could possibly harm anyone or anything.

This is because dates are not real.

You see this? 2012 will not destroy the Earth. Let’s all move on with our lives.