The end is upon us.

OK, this is a lie. I found about it months ago, and decided to share it today considering the anniversary of the supposed end of the world in 2012

The reason that the world was supposed to have ended on 21/12/12 (12/21/12 for "others") is that it was the last day that the Mayan calender accommodated in it. This newer "end of the world" is the same, except it involves how our computers perceive time. Most computers these days use a 32 bit integer, (ie 32 digits of 0s and 1s).

On the aforementioned date, all of the bits except the left most one will have reached 1, running out of "space", and overflowing the counter. Another recent place where this happened recently is PSY's Gangnam Style video on youtube, which also reset the counter, and sent it into negative. Google have now upgraded the counter to 64 bit, the same which will be done eventually to this time problem.