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The last hope (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago

There is still hope, it's Best by, not Use by

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

So many people interpret "best before" as "poisonous as hell after". Look at it, smell it, taste (a little bit of) it. If it passes all three, still perfect to eat.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Until its not

Be mindful of perishables left out of the fridge for a long time. Most of the time it is fine but in some cases it can cause illness.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, I store my food as recommended and treat the best before as written above. If stored in suboptimal conditions for extended time, most bets regarding the best before are off anyways.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

That is only what the Canadians release to the outside world. They have a strategic maple syrup reserve.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

strategic maple syrup reserve

I love that this is a real thing 😄

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Goddamned Canadian maple syrup cartel.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Actually, I think they identify more as a Maple Mafia..

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

But is it October 2, or February 10?!?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

All is possible with the power of maple

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

TBF tho it doesn’t really matter because either way it won’t go out of date in 14000 years

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's February 15th, 2010 at 14:41.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I wrote a program to figure out what day of the week this landed on (assuming it is in fact October 2nd, 151441).

It's a Saturday.

Real downer on the start of the weekend.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yep, my immediate thought was, how the hell would you know it works?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That program better be using an existing date library, because otherwise it's most definitely wrong.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

public string GetDayOfWeek(DateTime date) => "saturday";

I also calculated it, his result checks out.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Don't be ridiculous, that would never pass QA.

But this one will. Joy for years to come:

public string GetDayOfWeek(DateTime date) {
    return ((date - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).Milliseconds / 86400000) % 7 switch {
        0 => "Thursday",
        1 => "Friday",
        2 => "Saturday",
        3 => "Sunday",
        4 => "Monday"
    };
}
[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bro probably to account for leap Thursday's. We have one every ~28k years to keep in alignment with the true solar week.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Took me longer than it should have to realise this was a joke.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wilddddd. That was just crazy.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Glad you enjoyed it! Personally, I never expected such a thing from a sports reporting site.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I never knew of the existence of this story. Truly astounding.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

what an optimistic date for our demise.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Best by ≠ Expiration date

It's the truth, and I'm tired pretending it's not.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's just not in its best condition.
Another 720000 years before expiry.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

1441 is most likely the time stamp sorry guys...

(Not sure if Canada follows US or internal date format)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Canadian here. We're not sure either.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Slashes mean whatever american abomination

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Cry

You cut me deep, real deep.

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