Yeah. I've heard from sources that if you look into astrology, the date has to do with the alignment of the planets or something and the date is when we transition into another "era" (Taurus I believe) or something like that.... maybe... and somewhere along the line it got mistranslated into the doomsday story everyone hears about.
If anything, some bad stuff could go down though, because I'm thinking some insane group could come along and think that 2012 is their "destiny" or something like that... I dunno...