Something Strange about New Pistol

[Texshooter]

Bought a new pistol today (XD40), 4/2/10.

The envelope with the spent shell is dated


5/10/10!!!

Something about the time/space continuum (or whatever you call it) that I failed to read about in the morning paper?

I knew this healthcare thing had a bunch of potholes nobody anticipated.

 

[NG VI]

Awesome

 

[mlkx4]

Thats actually the expiration date on the pistol. On or before that date please send it to me for proper disposal.

 

[Nick5182]

What, you don't have a time machine? C'mon man, IT'S THE 21ST CENTURY!

 

[NG VI]

Maybe that is the date you were supposed to buy the pistol?

 

[CoRoMo]

No guys. They use the military date format. The test shot was done on the 5th of October.

 

[NukemJim]

Didn't the salesperon tell you?


That is the expiration date of that gun. It is not safe to use after that date.


There are are also severe federal penalities for shooting someon with and expired gun

Do not worry, just use it till then and then send it to me and I will take care of it for you so you do not get hurt by using an expired gun.

Best wishes

NukemJim

04/01/2010

 

[TexasRifleman]

Or, since it's Texas, just throw the thing in the trash and enjoy your new gun

 

[DoubleTapDrew]

May 10, 1910! What kind of condition is it in?

 

[jcwit]

ISO 8601 International Std. Year-month-day

Other than that, call them up and ask.

 

[LiveLife]

I could almost picture a technician at the CZ factory saying to another, "Hey, you think this might freak them out?"

 

[Bovice]

Using the format for military date, that would read 5 October 2010. Still haven't seen that date yet either.

It's probably just a mistake.

 

[jcwit]

Do a google for military date format

 

[Harvey]

It is probably not a date, but some other identifying avatar. Inspector's number? Facility location? How exactly is it written?

 

[DWFan]

You have just over a month to shoot this pistol before it counts as rounds fired thru the weapon. Take advantage of this factory grace period. After the 5/10/10 expiration date, you have to advertise the weapon on Gunbroker or Auction Arms to be able to claim it as NIB.

 

[JohnKSa]

I could almost picture a technician at the CZ factory saying to another, "Hey, you think this might freak them out?

Almost as freaked out as if the XD factory in Croatia started turning out CZ pistols.

 

[Texshooter]

Afraid to shoot it at all now

Could go "back to the future" or visa versa.

 

[jkingrph]

Activation date, you cannot shoot it before 5/10/10!!

 

[KarenTOC]

day/month/year is common in Europe.

 

[Mal H]

True, but there is no date format in existence that would make that date possible for a past event.

Texshooter, are you sure it's even a date?

Maybe it means 5 shots fired for testing, 10mm, all hit the 10 ring.

 

[Glockman17366]

I think jcwilt nailed it with the ISO 8601 International Std. Year-month-day
comment.
Company I work for is German and all of our dating is year-month-day. That would mean Texshooter's round was fired 2005-10-10 (Oct 10th, 2005).

 

[Mike J]

Ya'all got me curious so I went & dug my XD box out. I bought it in Sept. 2007. The date on the envelope for the fired shell casing was 03-07-2007. So they must have changed the date configuration. That or the expirment was a success & time travel really is possible.

 

[EyebrowZing]

Agreed with y/m/d. That's how all our paperwork in the Marines is dated. Though I'd expect it to have a zero in front of the five.

 

[Telumehtar]

It's probably Year/Month/Day which honestly is a better date format for organizational purposes.

I know in many datatypes in various databases now they have a full DateTime data type which break down to:

YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS:000 (where the zeros are down to thousandths of a second)

By having the datetime arranged in this format, you get a natural ordering due to the fact that the largest unit of time is always to the left and moving to successively smaller units as you go rightward.

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if Springfield moved to that format to bring some consistancy between their electronic records and the paper records they ship out.

 

[Prince Yamato]

What's the trigger pull, 1.41 gigawatts?