Mayan Doomsday Countdown

[trigggl]

On a whim, I decided to try to figure out how to create my own Linux command line Mayan countdown to December 21.

With the "knowledge" that the supposed doomsday is 13.0.0.0.0 according to the Mayan long count and that the date for that is approximated to Dec.21, I wrote a bash script to countdown the last 2 digits to 0.0.0.0.0. For instance, today is 76 days until Dec.21. By my bash script, that comes out to 3 winal and 16 K'in. Or, in other words,

0.0.0.3.16

Tomorrow will be...

0.0.0.3.15

We're already close enough to set the date that Tun, K'utun and Bac'tun are all zero. No point in calculating them. To make a short complicated story shorter, here's my script.

#!/bin/bash
let countdn=15695-$(date +%s)/86400
let winal=$countdn/20
let kin=$countdn-$winal*20
echo "0.0.0."$winal"."$kin

There are 20 K'in (days) in a Winal, so the day after 0.0.0.3.0 will be 0.0.0.2.19 left.

I guess I should put an 'if' statement on 'countdn' to make sure it's not a negative number.

else
echo "The sky is falling!"

[John P. Myers]

If it helps with the preciseness of your calculations, the Mayan calendar ends at the moment of the winter solstice, which is Dec. 21 at 11:12 AM UTC

[Mumps]

I guess I should put an 'if' statement on 'countdn' to make sure it's not a negative number.

else
echo "The sky is falling!"

Or, more appropriately

else
echo "The sky *has* fallen!"

[Mike029]

Dammit. We have to catch SG by that date? Let's get too it.... No time to waste.

[Duke of Buckingham]

If it is to have strange ideas, I still prefer to assume that the Mayan were expecting their gods to return to earth on that day.

In fact the Dresden codex on the last page seems to have a deluge as a prediction but I could bet anything that it is not it because if I lose I will only have to pay after the end of the world and I will not need the money anymore.

It doesn't matter anyway, if the word ends we will end with it and after the end of the world, no one will stay to congratulate the predictors of such disgrace.

I have one thing to declare, Duke phoned home and they are coming to take me home.

Very Crazy Duke phoning home

[trigggl]

0.0.0.3.15

[Duke of Buckingham]

Now I am getting nervous.

[Christopher Herr]

Mayan Doomsday?? Err, I am not participating, just like this guy wrote about the financial crisis.

[Duke of Buckingham]

“Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ''tomorrow'' on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have.

Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, ''If I had my life to live over again. ''Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day!

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight.

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward.

Your life will never be the same again.”


Og Mandino

[trigggl]

2 Uinal and 8 K'in until doomsday!