Talk:Expiration dates

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What is the purpose of listing an expiration date? It's going to change between batches of a product so will very quickly be meaningless when listed on a products page. ( Scrypt (talk) 23:56, 7 September 2018 (CEST) )

It's not being listed on the page, but it's shown in a field in the editor to help editors see data from which version of a product with this code has been entered most recently. --Bleakpatch (talk) 07:23, 8 September 2018 (CEST)
Thank you for the clarification ( Scrypt (talk) 14:06, 8 September 2018 (CEST) )

Complex topic

  • For it to be useful, we need to compute a difference between date of photo, and date indicated on the packaging.
  • A tiny fraction of photos we receive will have an expiry date (and currently, we don't have a real reward for taking it, since we're not an expiry date app)
  • Then once you have the photo, we'd need additional backend code to do the math, and then use "weasel words" to avoid any legal issues: "3 months shelf live on average". Then you'd have categories like spices where photos are typically taken at home, months after purchase, skewing average.
  • We can't simply return BBD, otherwise, we're bound to have complaints like "You're returning a false BBD, and my little kitten/child/… got sick because of you"
  • So my 2c: not as simple as it seems.

--Teolemon (talk) 07:03, 10 January 2025 (UTC)