This package of bagels I bought expired on a date that doesn't exist.
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.
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!
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.
February 23, 2029 doesn't exist?
Zero chance there are bagels with a shelf life of >a year.
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.
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.
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
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
The person marking them doesn't get paid enough to care.
Infinity bagels.
Sucked. Intoooo. A baaaageeeel.
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.
23rd of February 2029?
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.
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.
So it technically didn't expire?
ICA är galna pojkar
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February didn't have 29 days in 2023
Oh...
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 😂
