Quite frankly, I don't even think this prospective date for end of the world is even worth discussing. If it doesn't happen (which is most likely) we go on as normal. If it happens, there is nothing that can be done about it. Of much more import is what can we do now to make the world a better place?

Isn't this date based on the mayan calendar? If so, daylight savings time wasn't factored into their calendar, so this "end of the world" date has already passed.

It isn't worth the thought. Just keep on going. If it doesn't happen, nothing changes. If it does, there is nothing that can be done about it.

Originally Posted by ashlaaayyyyy

Isn't this date based on the mayan calendar? If so, daylight savings time wasn't factored into their calendar, so this "end of the world" date has already passed.

The date is based off our calender. Also, daylight savings time is factored in clocks, not calenders.

But I'm assuming your talking about the whole the Mayan calender not factoring leap years (and thus being the year 2013+). Leap days don't need to be factored into the Mayan calender as it is an entirely different system of date counting then the one we currently use. The Mayan calender in the strictest terms is one which is literally counting the sunrises since they cared to date things.

The Gregorian calender on the other hand is date tracking based off the Earth's position around the sun. A full solar year is 365.2425 days, and because its much easier to just add an extra day every few years then to split up the extra 6 hours between the normal 365 days, that is why we now have leap years.