Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean?

• Syn_Attck@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you buy fresh tuna and the country of origin date code is MM/DD/YY while you’re DD/MM/YY or YY/DD/MM or YY/MM/DD you could end up with year-old fish or worse. So yeah.

  And no, it won’t always be something easily detectable by look and smell like fish.

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  • 7uWqKj@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s why there’s an ISO standard for dates and it goes YYYY-MM-DD

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  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can easily write out the month: April 1, 2024. And don’t say “people might not speak English” or Chinese or whatever. You know what language to put it in because the rest of the package has writing on it too.

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    • Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      plenty of packaging sold in the us is not in English if your at the hmart or wherever. they just slap an English ingredients sticker on it.

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  • CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ISO 8601 specifies YYYY-MM-DD and that’s that, at least for the Gregorian calendar. I don’t know why people bother with other formats.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not even mentioning potential other calendars.

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