This package of bagels I bought expired on a date that doesn't exist.
I originally posted this on the other site back when I took the picture, and it resulted in a lot of confused comments, especially from Americans, eventually getting removed by overzealous mods. Either way, I promise you that this date does not exist, and has never existed.
When read in the only proper order, it translates (for the non-technical types), to February 23rd, 2029.
Mmm. 6 year old bagels.
By that logic, you should fully spell out the month. FEB29 has no confusion. If you use the number then use the ISO standard.
I’m so tired of this “proper order” date debate among regions. Can’t we just accept that there can be more than one correct way to do things?
We commonly write dates 02/29/23 because we speak or write “February 29th 2023” while in other languages, it’s customary to speak or write “29th of February 2023” leading them to the common format 29/02/23.
Edit: to curb the ISO standard comments, yes, that is the most efficient and organized way to write a date, but how many of you speak dates in ISO format? If you don’t commonly say “2023 February 29th” out loud, then you intrinsically understand that not all situations call for the ISO standard.
No, ISO 8601 is the proper order. YYYY-MM-DD.
I’m so tired of this “proper order” date debate among regions. Can’t we just accept that there can be more than one correct way to do things?
International Organization for Standardization (ISO) be like:
Written language doesn't have to follow spoken language. The ISO is for written things not spoken.
The reason you keep hearing about it is because people won't use the standard
Other languages including English, from England. We also say the 29th of February.
we speak or write February 29th 2023.
oh, yeah? Remind me of the date of "America's birthday" again?
It's usually easy to determine which order the person commenting observes too, just from context. I've never understood the confusion.
Everyone's getting the dates wrong, it's clearly the 23rd month of 2902 👍
That can't be it either since 2902 isn't a leap year so it only has about a dozen months
You weren’t sent the last memo, in 2500 we’ll finally replace the current, broken time system with an evolution of Swatch’s Internet Time. Days are divided in 1000 tiny parts, and years are also adjusted. A 2501 years has 50 months, except for leap years that now have 60 months
Lousy Smarch weather…
This comment section turned out almost as chaotic and confused as the old one, it's actually quite impressive.
I mean, I'm sure just like "the other site" there are a bunch of folks just attempting to be funny. Some folks are really serious about date standards though, woof.
Just enjoy your timeless bagels and try not to go full Everything Bagel on us.
To be fair, you are posting it at an odd end of the year on a worldwide forum with a lot of yanks in it. Unless bagels take more months to expire than I expected, I guess.
Plus, people like to play, and content to play with is pretty scant on lemmy.
February 23rd of 2029?
They might be a little stale, but it's all good
Remember, kids, not to ever compute dates yourselves. Use a library for that.
I've made that mistake a couple times, sending bills to people for things like April 31st. Have since swapped to letting python make calendars for me.
Memories of the old shitty codebase I inherited that had a bunch of if/else statements to add a day every four years. Which, of course, isn't even correct.
To be fair, by the time that code will fail, it won’t run anymore for a host of other reasons.
It's just seconds since unix epoch
Sun 4 January 1970 08:37:03 UTC
Well that’s just February twenty ni- oh. I see.
My guess is they forgot to advance the year on the stamper. 290224 does exist.
Zero chance there are bagels with a shelf life of >a year.
February 23, 2029 doesn't exist?
Sorry, but are you certain that number is both a date and the day it expires?
It could instead be a cash register code (perhaps a specific combination of ingredients), or the employee number for who made it (because Janet keeps fucking up, and Darma is sick of being blamed.)
Yes I am certain, I know how expiry dates are written on bread in Sweden, I lived there. This was also said on my last post, but I promise you, it's just an error and should have said March 1st.
People put these days on with a handheld price gun. So it's just someone who didn't realize the month didn't go that long.
Also why do these bagels last 2 more months? They usually last a few days.
Or they got the year wrong unless you bought extremely expired bread or the much less plausible answer, this is an old picture.
Feb 29, 2023 is actually March 1, 2023.
lol at everyone missing that 2023 isn't a leap year and just getting confused by the European format.
Damn the date - I want to know how you can buy invisible bagels?
You see, it's "naturel", so this is just regular bagels with all artificial ingredients removed
Uh am I just special, because I saw February 29th 2023 immediately Isn't a lot of things formatted in the DD/MM/YYYY type especially for expiration dates
It's just the EU date style.
I find my brain reads dates the US way first and then immediately rereads the EU way after, when that doesn't make sense. It's pretty automatic.
Not even tangentially related.. but I replaced the dumb American (and I know UK as well) 3 fingers gesture with the German 3 when I learned of it as a teenager. It's so much more efficient and reasonable compared to stretching our fingers out unnaturally...
Isn't it basically the rest of the world style? like metric?
ISO8601 is the one true date format
my sister got married on feb 29th. their 'second' anniversary is next year.
My uncle was born on Feb 29. We both had our 16th birthdays the same year.
Infinity bagels.
Sucked. Intoooo. A baaaageeeel.
The person marking them doesn't get paid enough to care.
23rd of February 2029?
So it technically didn't expire?
That doesn't mean they never expire! Those bagels are months old even if they do expire on a date that doesn't exist!
Imagine the mold!
Nah they were eaten long before having a chance to mold, don't worry.
Well you're no fun
This is correct.
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They are the expiration date though. Why do you say that so confidently if you don't know what you're talking about?
These numbers are put on by grocery clerks with a price-gun. All they did was add on however many days the product is supposed to last after it got put on the shelf. So it's really just some grocery worker not worrying about a date not existing. I woulda done the same thing if I was stocking these tbh.
ICA är galna pojkar
Man I swear I remember this on reddit.. or a post similar to it.
I remember many of my fellow Americans couldn't understand the date format.
Edit: And it looks like the same thing happened here..
You're so close. Even in European date formats, the 29th of February doesn't exist.
It exists in leap years. 2023, however, wasn't a leap year.
I understand that.. I'm just talking about the users fixating on the date format. Look at all the examples in the comments.
Yeah that's where I originally posted it. I just remembered it when I first discovered this community on Lemmy and thought I'd share it here as well. I agree with you completely it's crazy how it just inspires so much random discussion on date formats when it's just supposed to be a funny quirk about how the 29th exists in all months except one, except for the years it exists there as well.
dont eat that
Too late apparently
I once bought pants that were produced on 31st of June, not even leap year could've explained that 😂
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February didn't have 29 days in 2023
Oh...
American here, that didn’t expire on February 29th, it will expire on the second of Viginti-September. Easy mistake to make.
Viginti-September 2 is my birthday!