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I don't know if we have any doomsday preppers here, or if we have anyone who truly believes the world will end on December 21 of this year. If we do, your bubble is about to be burst.
The Mayan calendar did not account for one very important thing that we use in today's calendar - the leap year. They simply didn't use it.
Julius Caesar created the leap year around the year 45 BC. Since then, there have been 514 leap years, accounting for 514 extra days. Without that extra day added in every 4 years, today's date would not be March 5, 2012. It would instead be July 30, 2013.
Based on that fact, the world should have ended 7 months ago, but it didn't. You can relax and quit prepping now. You're welcome.
The Mayan calendar did not account for one very important thing that we use in today's calendar - the leap year. They simply didn't use it.
Julius Caesar created the leap year around the year 45 BC. Since then, there have been 514 leap years, accounting for 514 extra days. Without that extra day added in every 4 years, today's date would not be March 5, 2012. It would instead be July 30, 2013.
Based on that fact, the world should have ended 7 months ago, but it didn't. You can relax and quit prepping now. You're welcome.