50 = 2005 IC datecode

Jul 19, 2007 2 Replies

eg 5007 presumably week 07 of 52 in year 2005 JRC seems to use this convention of reversing post-millenium dates - do others ?


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You're very sure it isn't week 50 of 2007? :-)

Jonesy

Many decades ago 5007 stood for year 1950. Work 07. And usually this was based on a 50 work week year.

I will have to monitor date codes more closely to see if the 50 work week thing is still true.

Bob AZ

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