Prepare for a new, more accurate, stupid doomsday date prediction.
The Maya didn't actually make that doomsday date prediction; it's not in the codexes or anything the Classical Maya ever wrote. The doomsday thing is a modern interpretation, and mostly rejected by the people who actually study this.
Also, the Classical Maya occasionally used higher order long count numbers, so they would have been prepared for the end of the era. Which means they would have had a big party in 2012. The next day, they would have slapped another digit in front of the Long Count. Presumably while they were still hung over.
Which doesn't mean that, had Classical Maya civilization continued uninterrupted to the present day, that some of them wouldn't have freaked out around 2012. Kind of like people in Western Civilization did before the years 1000 and 2000. I do suspect Maya programmers in this universe would have had their own version of the Y2K problem, though.
