The expiration dates of food and drink products are a critically important piece of information to know, especially for someone like me who works in a retail establishment that has a cooler filled with various colas for the customers to enjoy. Pepsi and Coca-Cola both stamp a clear, human-readable expiration date on their products. The Pepsi I'm drinking right now has the expiration date "Nov 19 07" very clearly stamped on the bottle. Coke does something similar, stamping an easily-read and understandable expiration date not only once, but twice on their products ("102207" on the cap ring and "OCT2207" on the bottle itself).
As mentioned, Pepsi and Coke are very good at marking expiration dates. Dr. Pepper, however, is not. Instead of using an easily-readable date for the expiration, they have opted to use a cryptic code. Here is an example:
07:57 OT6 H7225
I imagine this is actually a production code, but it should be possible to figure out the expiration date from this. But how?
2007-09-24
08:57:20
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Torin Darkflight
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