Curious

[simont]

I just popped into my local shop, ten minutes before it shut, to buy some milk for tomorrow's breakfast. Some of the plastic milk bottles were stamped with a best-before date of ‘21 OCT’, and some with ‘23 OCT’. So far, so unremarkable; but to the right of those groups were some bottles stamped ‘22A OCT’. Huh?

Comments

[ptc24.livejournal.com]

22A October. Sounds like the plot for a weird metaphysical comedy film, where there's this day that most people just unknowingly sleep through, except for some reason the protagonist's kept up all night for some reason, and starts to see all of the strange and wonderful goings-on on 22A/10.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps some sort of complicated daylight saving thing?

Another question arises: do most (well, half) pints of milk have this? Or is it rare? Who can remember?