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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.
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.
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Because we have to define which century the food goes out of date in?
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.
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
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.
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 ;)
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...
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.
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.
So it technically didn't expire?
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..