Mayan calendar and Gregorian Leap Year.
Mayan calendar and Gregorian Leap Year.
There was a forwarded post circulating on FB about how the Mayan Calendar and the end of the world had in fact already happened. You may of already seen it; it said (not sure of the date of the original posting):
This is in fact incorrect as stated here (this guy explains it better than I would of).
Very interesting when you start looking at it.
Here's another guy explaining it better than I could, possibly the better explanation than the one above:
http://jameswatt.me/2012/03/07/mayan-calendar-and-the-gregorian-leap-year/
Here's a nice quote from the above source.
This kinda makes sense to me...
What do you think peeps??
Mayan calendar and Gregorian Leap Year.
There was a forwarded post circulating on FB about how the Mayan Calendar and the end of the world had in fact already happened. You may of already seen it; it said (not sure of the date of the original posting):
There have been about 514 Leap Years since Caesar created it in 45BC. Without the extra day every 4 years, today would be July 28, 2013. Also, the Mayan calendar did not account for leap year…. so technically the world should have ended 7 months ago.
This is in fact incorrect as stated here (this guy explains it better than I would of).
The Mayan solar calendar has no leap years, and is 365 days long. However, this is not the calendar that is being used to predict the end of the world; the Mayans used a long-count calendar for extremely long periods of time. The concept of leap-years is irrelevant to this calendar system, because it's not based on solar years, simply on math.
You know how we use a base-10 counting system? (10, 100, 1000, 10,000 etc.) The Mayans used a modified base-20 counting system for keeping track of days - the second cycle went up to 18 rather than 20. So they tracked days in cycles of 20, 360, 7200, 144000, 2880000, etc.
We're coming to the end of one of the 144,000 day cycles. Today (March 6, 2012) can be expressed at 12.19.19.3.10 on the Mayan long-count calendar. This calendar will reach 12.19.19.17.19, on December 20, and then turn to 13.0.0.0.0 on December 21. This happens roughly every 400 years. No big deal.
Very interesting when you start looking at it.
Here's another guy explaining it better than I could, possibly the better explanation than the one above:
http://jameswatt.me/2012/03/07/mayan-calendar-and-the-gregorian-leap-year/
Here's a nice quote from the above source.
The current era (known to the Mayans as a baktun) does end on December 21, 2012. However, the world will not end; the calendar simply rolls over to the next baktun. It’s very similar to the Gregorian date of January 1, 2000.
And just like we celebrated the beginning of the new millennium, the Mayans would have celebrated the beginning of a new baktun. This was not something to fear.
This kinda makes sense to me...
What do you think peeps??