I can't tell from here but it sounds fishy to me. Try resetting the controller to the factory settings and reprogram it. It should work.
If your old Hunter SRC controller won't show the year 2012, it doesn't mean end times have arrived. What it does mean is that it is one of the older versions that failed to have an extended calendar database. Since these clocks only have the years 1996-2011 in the database, you have to pick a year where the days of the month line up properly with the days of the week. What makes this difficult is leap years, but for those people in northern climates, you can put off worrying about this until the month of March or April, at which time you set the year to 2001, which keeps you in good stead for the next three years.
Here is a short list of settings for the SRC. The left-hand number is the actual year. The right-hand number is the year you set the clock for
2012 - 2001
2013 - 2002
2014 - 2003
2015 - 2009
2016 - 2005
2017 - 2006
2018 - 2007
So, if you change the settings in March, or later, you only have to do this three times in the next seven years (2012, 2015, 2016)