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.
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!
When read in the only proper order, it translates (for the non-technical types), to February 23rd, 2029.
Mmm. 6 year old bagels.
I’m so tired of this tired “proper order” date debate among regions. Can’t we just accept 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.
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.
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:
This is my favorite comment thus far
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
you actually think you’ll be able to convince anyone even remotely stupid or stubborn to use this? you must have never tried anything like this before then…
Well yeah, I never expected it to work…
Other languages including English, from England. We also say the 29th of February.
Real English is American you bloody redcoats are always appropriating our culture
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.
Yeah, especially with something like 03/04/07 12:47 AM
The likes of this date and time are just evil because not only you may mistake day for month or even year, but also 12 AM in some places precedes 1 AM while in other places it precedes 1 PM.
I’m almost convinced that an additional info with a UNIX timestamp must be always shown to be used as a ground truth wherever a date is presented
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.
To be pedantic, “290223” is not valid ISO 8601.
Two digit years are no longer allowed by the standard.
Because we have to define which century the food goes out of date in?
So you’re agreeing with the comment you’re replying to?
People can do that, you know
The image makes it seem like a disagreement, or maybe it’s just me
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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.
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…
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.
February 23rd of 2029?
They might be a little stale, but it’s all good
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.
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February 23, 2029 doesn’t exist?
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.
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.
They expired 10 months ago. 23, not 24
Or they got the year wrong unless you bought extremely expired bread or the much less plausible answer, this is an old picture.
Yes, that’s definitely not very plausible, that this is an old picture ;)
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
February 29th 2023 isn’t a real date
That’s the point lmfao
Then what is the point of your first comment?
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
The person marking them doesn’t get paid enough to care.
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.
