I should think it would be according to Mayan (ie, southern Mexico) time.

Perhaps the lack of frantic news is due to the lack people able to post it due to the fact that the world has ended. 

I can't wait til Dec 22 to find out what all the stupid people did. Like maybe they didn't pay their rent cuz the world was ending. Why not eat lobster and drink up your rent money? January isn't coming anyway!!!! Spend it on fun.

Yep! It's official - the Mayans declared that since Aussies were such great people we'd be given an extra day........

I will be really ripped off if I didn't fit in one more Big Mac and Fries and Diet Coke cause I am eating healthy if the world really ends!!!

Typical, typical, typical bloody Aussies. No respect. Not for the Poms, or the Yanks … not even for the bloody Mayans. Go along with nothing anyone else says, NEVER!…and why? It's not like any of them could expect to be raptured like the Kiwis undoubtedly will be: god's own, our lot. Ye-aH "God's Own", lovely people, the Kiwis. Another day? Even the devil doesn't want those bellyaching Aussies… no surprise, really — far to much bad language, boozing and argy-bargy for Auld Nick. The Aussies''ll probably be stuck on a fragment of the shattered planet till someone in authority works out what to do with them… a long-standing problem. Got a bit of history to it, that one, yeah, straight up. Dinkum! Yeah. Makes yer think, eh? Or weep?

We did pick up a few lobster tails today...

I"m not even planning to finish my Christmas shopping until Saturday. Why worry about it?

i look forward to the new lifeform(s) that we will become...

GO PODS GO!!!

Can you imagine what the "pick-up lines" at the bar will be like tonight? Ha ha!

The end of the world is the letter d.

Well I think I will go to bed. If the world ends this will be my last post to you.

If not you will be obligated to put up with me for awhile longer.

Good nite my friends. I will see you in a few hours in the afterlife or tomorrow on wondercafe.

And since I paid my mortgage...well u know where I expect to be in a few hours.

Somehow I thought the end of the world would be more exciting than this. So far I don't see any difference!

I'm starting to think that it is actually the Mayans April Fools Day.

It wasn't actually the Mayans, Kay… it was a New Age misinterpretation of Mayan wisdom tradition and their calendar. So it's maybe New Age April Fool's Day.

The Mayans are much more sanguine.

NEWS: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/21/mayan-apocalypse-doomsday-end-world.html?cmp=rss

I'm with Somegal. Sorry to disappoint you folks, but this is the afterlife.

I demand a harp & wings!

What? The world didn't end today!! I had a substantial bet placed that it would end. I would have been rich I tell you, rich.

I knew that MikePaterson.  I was joking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So was I… 

Well dang. I had an afterlife party planned in my dungeon for all of you

my bedendritic sethern,

may we never forget the brave new world we inhabit

or, in the words of a member of one of the most advanced races on the orbs, Australia:

"Well, here in Australia it's ticked over to the 21st of December 2012, the date of the Mayan apocalypse, and I can tell you that civilisation is near non-existent, a murderous hot breeze is blowing across arid, unfriendly land, and poisonous, demonic animals are crawling beneath our feet and infesting the water around us. Fortunately, that's exactly how it was here before the Mayan apocalypse, so it looks like things will be fine."

--Greg, sysop of thedailygrail

.....Scientists have confirmed that around. 4:30 pm the sky went dark on the 21st of December 2012.....and they called this phenomonin night....

My receptionist from Missouri told me that they closed some of the schools where her family lives so families could stay home and pray. As she said - another reason to make Missouri proud LOL

So I was on a date last night. The end of the world line was not used.

The roads are bad and I will drive you to my place so we can be snowed in together. But it fell flat. I'm a good driver. Not afraid of snow, wind, and the dark.

From what I perceive the end of the world was percieved of more as as a joke then anything else.

The only thing he said was "the world didn't end...guess I have to do my christmas shopping"