The expiration date is not in a standard US or European
format. They are using the old COBOL pic standard used on
any computer system where the Geeks thought ahead to the Y2K
problem, (some data stores were Y2K compliant as long ago as
the 1970's). The reason to use this format is that it is un-
ambiguous. If you use say 12/7/2001 you cannot be sure if the
date is December 7th or July 12th, depending where the stuff might
have been manufactured, (although you can probably
be sure of the year). However with 2001/08/01 you know that you're
looking at August 1st 2001, by convention.
At 04:49 AM 8/19/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>Excuse me. We are not the ones who use 2001/08/19. We
>use US reagents at work and the expiry date says
>something like 2001/08/19. We prefer to say 19/8/01.
>Maybe we don't always know what year it is (or even
>what day it is), but that's OK.
>
>Jody.
>
> > And finally, get the date thing right. 19/8/01
> > would be the 19th month, 8th
> > day of 2001 in our system. We write 8/19/01 and you
> > use 2001/08/19 because
> > we know what year it is. That number changes only
> > once every 365 days, so
> > why start out with it. It's much more economical to
> > say August 19th or 8/19
> > first.
>
>
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