• @[email protected]
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    67 months ago

    Because of the other writing on the package, I’m wondering if because its sold on the international market and dates would get very confusing and possibly harmful.

      • @[email protected]
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        17 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.

        • @7uWqKj
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          277 months ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          127 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.

          • @[email protected]
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            27 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.

        • Cethin
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          27 months ago

          That’s not even mentioning potential other calendars.

        • CrimeDad
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          13 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.