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)
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.