• @Syn_Attck@lemmy.today
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      07 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.

      • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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        17 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
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          17 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.

      • CrimeDadA
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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.