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trigggl
10-06-12, 06:38 PM
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
10-06-12, 07:05 PM
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
10-06-12, 07:07 PM
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
10-06-12, 08:22 PM
Dammit. We have to catch SG by that date? Let's get too it.... No time to waste. :p

Duke of Buckingham
10-07-12, 01:21 AM
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
http://www.mobileapptesting.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/et-phone-home.gif

trigggl
10-07-12, 08:35 AM
0.0.0.3.15

Duke of Buckingham
10-07-12, 08:58 AM
Now I am getting nervous.
http://www.chumpysclipart.com/images/illustrations/xsmall2/3570_picture_of_a_very_nervous_man_biting_his_nail s.jpg

trigggl
10-08-12, 12:22 AM
0.0.0.3.14

Duke of Buckingham
10-08-12, 02:35 AM
http://www.crystalinks.com/aug11mayacalendar.jpg

trigggl
10-10-12, 07:24 AM
0.0.0.3.12

Duke of Buckingham
10-10-12, 08:01 AM
0.0.0.3.12

http://doomsdayparty2012.com/images/pyramidofthesun.jpg

trigggl
10-17-12, 07:12 AM
0.0.0.3.5

Duke of Buckingham
10-17-12, 07:38 AM
triggl we are at 2 months and 4 days from the so called Doomsday on a count down clock the last number is zero.

Your countdown clock is for 22nd of January of 2013.

Duke of Buckingham
10-17-12, 08:01 AM
http://countdown.onlineclock.net/countdowns/doomsday/

I just don´t know how to put the countdown clock image in here. It is not easy because I am on this for a long time.

trigggl
10-17-12, 12:54 PM
My current clock is based on UTC. I subtract current time UTC from Unix time (converted to days) of 13.0.0.0.0. So, when we reach it, it goes to 0. Technically, it should be daybreak of the Mayan timezone, I guess. If I ever have time and get extremely board, I'll look at it closer and make adjustments.

By my calculations, we hit 0 on the 21st. (Roughly nightfall on the 20th, US Central)

Keep in mind, we go from 3.0 to 2.19.

trigggl
10-17-12, 03:52 PM
I've updated my script to be accurate down to the second. I want it to turn to 0 (zero) at the "doomsday" time. Therefore I had to add a day to account for a fraction of a day equating to 0. A day is equal to 86400 seconds.

So, this will turn to 0.0.0.0.0 at 11:11 UTC the 21st of December.


#!/bin/bash
let countdn=1356084660-$(date +%s)+86400
let winal=$countdn/1728000
let pre_kin=$countdn-$winal*1728000
let kin=$pre_kin/86400
echo "0.0.0."$winal"."$kin

It works in AIX, too, if I change "bash" to "ksh".

Duke of Buckingham
10-17-12, 04:04 PM
Nice trigggl now we know when we are going to die EXACTLY.

No one wants to lose the End of The World.

We are ready.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JAwiEg4gRVo/TVWT9NX9ixI/AAAAAAAAACo/ef1L4GwrK10/s1600/crazy-person.jpg

The cat is not happy but it is ready.

trigggl
10-18-12, 07:12 AM
0.0.0.3.4

1154

Duke of Buckingham
10-20-12, 09:23 PM
http://media.arkansasonline.com/img/photos/2012/07/20/resized_99261-mayan-calender_84-16040_t598.jpg?b7052f07a6139e7088ebc43100469802b25 60d37

trigggl
10-20-12, 11:24 PM
Made another modification to the script to hopefully make it less confusing.


#!/bin/bash
let countdn=1356084660-$(date +%s)+86400
let winal=$countdn/1728000
let pre_kin=$countdn-$winal*1728000
let kin=$pre_kin/86400
echo $winal" Uinal and "$kin "K'in until doomsday!"

Which currently comes to:

3 Uinal and 2 K'in until doomsday!

Duke of Buckingham
10-22-12, 09:52 AM
Doomsday song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmIfwTujIUg

Duke of Buckingham
10-23-12, 08:59 PM
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

trigggl
10-24-12, 12:10 AM
2 Uinal and 19 K'in until doomsday!

Duke of Buckingham
10-24-12, 04:06 AM
http://moviestudio.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/doomsday3oy7.jpg

Duke of Buckingham
10-26-12, 01:07 PM
http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technology/gty_mayan_temple_chichen_itza_ll_111220_mn.jpg

Nuadormrac
10-27-12, 11:28 AM
If we could only go back in time and convince them to make the end of their calendar Nov 6... Then these politicians would have no leverage here in the US to try to influence some voters, because they'd be too afraid to listen to the fear mongering from the political parties... Anything to make them a bit less effective in getting to people :))

trigggl
10-27-12, 11:29 AM
2 Uinal and 15 K'in until doomsday!

Duke of Buckingham
10-28-12, 09:26 AM
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Isaac Asimov
The Prophet

Duke of Buckingham
10-31-12, 05:42 AM
"A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises."

---- Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris

Christopher Herr
11-01-12, 05:24 AM
Mayan Doomsday?? Err, I am not participating, just like this guy wrote about the financial crisis. :))

Duke of Buckingham
11-01-12, 07:19 AM
“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
11-03-12, 10:15 AM
2 Uinal and 8 K'in until doomsday!

Duke of Buckingham
11-03-12, 10:34 AM
http://newbodyandmind.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/scared_cat.jpg

http://s4.hubimg.com/u/4792147_f260.jpg

Duke of Buckingham
11-05-12, 08:34 AM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nS1pQ7eJGRM/Tw-F5MkE_SI/AAAAAAAAAcc/fxYILBnbAVc/s1600/panic.jpg
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll317/Disench4nted/panic.gif

Duke of Buckingham
11-06-12, 08:30 AM
Bad things come twice, so if is to have an end of the world, it should come twice.
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/6900000/Natural-Disaster-national-geographic-6968881-1200-800.jpg?1352211876280
keep the panic, don't give up.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d4FN-38tS3k/TfD_Zr8OB_I/AAAAAAAAFfg/x44zX-dv04E/s1600/keep-calm-and-panic.jpg

Very Crazy Duke

trigggl
11-09-12, 07:25 AM
2 Uinal and 2 K'in until doomsday!

Next, I need to modify my script to countdown to the Fiscal Cliff.

Duke of Buckingham
11-09-12, 08:31 AM
Now is the fiscal cliff ...
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-okQEYtpxM2Y/T0Pp5b2u15I/AAAAAAAAAK0/GVIFEkNSCXw/s1600/Nervous+Nailbiter.jpg
I thought it was only the end of the world.

Duke of Buckingham
11-12-12, 08:57 PM
Now I am worried.

http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics/images/s/sad_cat-13555.jpg

Are you sure is not only the end of the world trigggl.

Duke of Buckingham
11-13-12, 08:24 AM
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln


If we don't end war, war will end us.

H. G. Wells

trigggl
11-20-12, 09:30 AM
1 Uinal and 11 K'in until doomsday!

Duke of Buckingham
11-29-12, 04:32 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsY7-QH4-vE

http://catmacros.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/endoftheworld.jpg

trigggl
11-30-12, 07:28 AM
1 Uinal and 1 K'in until doomsday!

trigggl
12-05-12, 06:50 AM
0 Uinal and 16 K'in until doomsday!

Crazybob
12-05-12, 02:11 PM
After everyone is lost in the end of days, I'm going to go around and pick up the spare change so as to avoid the fiscal cliff.:)

Duke of Buckingham
12-05-12, 02:20 PM
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/11/18/en_1118_ANDREWS_480x360.jpg

trigggl
12-20-12, 07:23 AM
0 Uinal and 1 K'in until doomsday!

21 ticks of the 24 hour sun dial to go.

Duke of Buckingham
12-20-12, 08:08 AM
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f1UjuduwjYE/TTyl1hGWcxI/AAAAAAAAAho/Mycssx_lr4Y/s640/panico.jpg

http://idoubtit.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/dont-panic.jpg

John P. Myers
12-21-12, 05:58 AM
Welp...12 minutes left and here i am spending it with you guys. Smoke 'em if you got 'em!


See you tomorrow ;)

trigggl
12-21-12, 06:54 AM
0 Uinal and 0 K'in until doomsday!

Welcome to the 13th baktun.

13.0.0.0.0

So, does it reset to 0.0.0.0.0 now?

Duke of Buckingham
12-21-12, 09:23 AM
0 Uinal and 0 K'in until doomsday!

Welcome to the 13th baktun.

13.0.0.0.0

So, does it reset to 0.0.0.0.0 now?

The change of the cycle is today at 23:55 GMT. That is exactly the hour of the alignment with the Milky Way or the exact time that we will be on Galactic Equator. It is also for coincidence the solar maximum and the end of the Winter solstice. They are all almost coincident with that hour. There is another coincidence (or not) with the Maximum inclination of the earth axis (?precession? in english I think)

There is a strong tradition of "world ages" in Mayan literature, but the record has been distorted, leaving several possibilities open to interpretation.

According to the Popol Vuh, a compilation of the creation accounts of the K'iche' Maya of the Colonial-era highlands, we are living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the gods first creating three failed worlds, followed by a successful fourth world in which humanity was placed. In the Maya Long Count, the previous world ended after 13 b'ak'tuns, or roughly 5,125 years.

The Long Count's "zero date" was set at a point in the past marking the end of the third world and the beginning of the current one, which corresponds to 11 August 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. This means that the fourth world will also have reached the end of its 13th b'ak'tun, or Mayan date 13.0.0.0.0, on 21 December 2012.

In 1957, Mayanist and astronomer Maud Worcester Makemson wrote that "the completion of a Great Period of 13 b'ak'tuns would have been of the utmost significance to the Maya". In 1966, Michael D. Coe wrote in The Maya that "there is a suggestion ... that Armageddon would overtake the degenerate peoples of the world and all creation on the final day of the 13th [b'ak'tun]. Thus ... our present universe [would] be annihilated [in December 2012] when the Great Cycle of the Long Count reaches completion."

Congratulations on the countdown trigggl and thanks for being with us JPM, I wouldn´t be anywhere for the end of the world.:D

Something important will start tonight at 23:55 GMT, as it started when the Spanish arrived in America.

Mayans were fanatics about time and the stars position on the sky but their previsions go until 7.137 of our era. So it is not the end of the world, there is no point in making previsions for a world that doesn't exist anymore.

I always thought the best prevision was connected with their Gods to come to earth again. With the major probability for Kinich Ahau and/or Kukulcan but that is the future and the future will come... ...just around the corner.


http://www.mrfs.net/trips/2006/Yucatan/Chichen_Itza/kukulcan.jpg
Kukulcan

http://www.delange.org/Kohunlich/DSC00112b.jpg
Kinich Ahau


tzuhtzjo:m uy-u:xlaju:n pik
chan ajaw u:x uni:w
uhto:m il[?]
ye'ni/ye:n bolon yokte'
ta chak joyaj



It will be completed the 13th b'ak'tun.
It is 4 Ajaw 3 K'ank'in
and it will happen a 'seeing'[?].
It is the display of B'olon-Yokte'
in a great "investiture".

Mike029
12-21-12, 11:12 AM
Are we dead yet?

Duke of Buckingham
12-21-12, 11:51 AM
Are we still alive?

Respect your ancestors because everything that you are you owe to them. No one asks you to believe in what they said but for sure civilization is all about our passed and today we build our future and tomorrow... ... well tomorrow is another day, we can built tomorrow, we can not built yesterday.

It is good for us to have this barriers, this tests to our believe in men, in our religions, in ourselves. That is what we do since we have born, we test everything that we are and everything that we are was given by our ancestors and on our life.

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

spingadus
12-21-12, 01:29 PM
Can you feel the change? I ate some grits this morning and they seemed a bit saltier than usual.

Duke of Buckingham
12-22-12, 07:22 PM
The end of the world for December 2012 was canceled in Portugal because our country has no money to an event of that magnitude.

http://media.merchantcircle.com/28587860/pigs.laughing_full.gif

Draconian
12-22-12, 07:27 PM
Would have been the all time greatest prank to be working at the power company and flip the switch at midnight, maybe play some trumpets through the civil defense sirens...
Better than getting rid of my excess catfish bait on Halloween...trick or treat.... :p

Duke of Buckingham
12-29-12, 05:47 PM
When is the next end of the world?

trigggl
12-29-12, 08:56 PM
When is the next end of the world?

Well...there is the Unix Millennium Bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem) in 2038.

Duke of Buckingham
12-29-12, 10:50 PM
Well...there is the Unix Millennium Bug (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem) in 2038.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. So many people unemployed till 2038 that can not be true. We must have an end of the world in the near future to protect their jobs.

Where is Kukulcan? Maybe he is anonymous between us. Did someone saw a feathered serpent somewhere?

Well the ETs didn't show either, I would lose my bet. Damn I can not lose all the time, next time I will bet in Horus the Egyptian god.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Eye_of_Horus_bw.svg/90px-Eye_of_Horus_bw.svg.png

I will keep an eye on him.

trigggl
01-09-13, 04:43 PM
0 Uinal and -18 K'in until doomsday!

Today's date:
13.0.0.0.19 M.L.C.

Just in case you need to write a check to cash in at a Mayan bank.

Mike029
01-09-13, 11:26 PM
0 Uinal and -18 K'in until doomsday!

Today's date:
13.0.0.0.19 M.L.C.

Just in case you need to write a check to cash in at a Mayan bank.

Are we still dead, yet?

Duke of Buckingham
01-10-13, 03:59 PM
Are we still dead, yet?

I didn't find the "we".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBaYbOnp7hU

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/turn-on.png

trigggl
01-10-13, 05:47 PM
By the way, today is

13.0.0.1.0

Duke of Buckingham
01-20-13, 05:00 PM
The mood of the world is changing