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.
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.
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.
That’s why there’s an ISO standard for dates and it goes YYYY-MM-DD
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.
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.
That’s not even mentioning potential other calendars.