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.
It’s just seconds since unix epoch
Sun 4 January 1970 08:37:03 UTC
So it technically didn’t expire?
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.
I understand that… I’m just talking about the users fixating on the date format. Look at all the examples in the comments.
It exists in leap years. 2023, however, wasn’t a leap year.
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.
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…
ISO8601 is the one true date format
Isn’t it basically the rest of the world style? like metric?
February 29th 2023 isn’t a real date
That’s the point lmfao
Then what is the point of your first comment?
Infinity bagels.
Sucked. Intoooo. A baaaageeeel.
23rd of February 2029?
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.
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.
Zero chance there are bagels with a shelf life of >a year.
February 23, 2029 doesn’t exist?
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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.
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!
Well you’re no fun
This is correct.
Nah they were eaten long before having a chance to mold, don’t worry.
ICA är galna pojkar
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
dont eat that
Too late apparently
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.
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!
