Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean?
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 10 months agoBecause 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.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 10 months ago
More harmful than a literal code?
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 10 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@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s why there’s an ISO standard for dates and it goes YYYY-MM-DD
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 10 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.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 10 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@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
That’s not even mentioning potential other calendars.