> (And EU requires dd/mm/yyyy in "best before" dates.) This sounded intriguing, so I checked my fridge, and this doesn't seem to be strictly true. Everything I

> (And EU requires dd/mm/yyyy in "best before" dates.) This sounded intriguing, so I checked my fridge, and this doesn't seem to be strictly true. Everything I found used . rather than / as the separator, as is usual here (Austria). But also, some years were YY only. And the eggs are just plain weird: Both the carton and the stamp on the eggs list DD.MM. while the graphic explaining the date stamp uses a DD.MM.YYYY example date.