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Random association, but my first experience of this was comic books. When I was younger, I remember that the date on the book was always way ahead of when I bou
by telemachos 17y ago
Random association, but my first experience of this was comic books. When I was younger, I remember that the date on the book was always way ahead of when I bought it.
I bet this goes back to some weird print/magazine marketing thing: more current = more better.
- gabrielroth 17y agoYeah, print magazines have a kind of chronological arms race. No one wants to have a date that's earlier than the adjacent magazines on the stand.
- mattlanger 17y agoWell, along with cars, and sports video games, and basically anything else with some chronologically oriented release cycle. Really the only things to buck this trend were Microsoft operating systems in the 90s.
- mschy 17y agoIt probably just means that the article will be in the Feb 1 issue. Skewed dates might be more accurate, but they'd also be more confusing in a lot of use cases than simply using the print date everywhere.
- petewarden 17y agoIf I remember my 2000AD days right, I think the date was when the newsagent should remove the comic from the shelves, more like a sell-by date than a published-on time.
- anigbrowl 17y agoCorrect. I raise my LRD to you, Sir.