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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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[–] commanderbalok@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are the expiration date though. Why do you say that so confidently if you don't know what you're talking about?

[–] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] 1847953620@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I schedule all my meetings for March 31st.

[–] Tuss@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Swede here. Those labels are from the producer. It's easier to just use the same bags and then add the expiration date on a separate labels than to print the expiration date on the bags themselves.

That way if you make same same bread on the same date but one batch gets frozen and the other gets sent out fresh you just use the same bags but they get different labels with different exparation dates depending if they are frozen or fresh.

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[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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..

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're so close. Even in European date formats, the 29th of February doesn't exist.

[–] gever4ever@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It exists in leap years. 2023, however, wasn't a leap year.

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I understand that.. I'm just talking about the users fixating on the date format. Look at all the examples in the comments.

[–] Bumblefumble@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Too late apparently

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I once bought pants that were produced on 31st of June, not even leap year could've explained that 😂

[–] sarmale@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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