Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world Bumblefumble @lemm.ee 11 mo. ago

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.

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American here, that didn’t expire on February 29th, it will expire on the second of Viginti-September. Easy mistake to make.
When read in the only proper order, it translates (for the non-technical types), to February 23rd, 2029.
I think you'll find the 23rd of February exists. Fuck knows what preservatives are in those things to last a bit over 5 years.
Everyone's getting the dates wrong, it's clearly the 23rd month of 2902 👍
This comment section turned out almost as chaotic and confused as the old one, it's actually quite impressive.
February 23rd of 2029?
Remember, kids, not to ever compute dates yourselves. Use a library for that.
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.
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.)
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?
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
my sister got married on feb 29th. their 'second' anniversary is next year.
The person marking them doesn't get paid enough to care.
Infinity bagels.
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!
ICA är galna pojkar
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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..
dont eat that
I once bought pants that were produced on 31st of June, not even leap year could've explained that 😂
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