Has McC's changed their dating stamps?

[SUOrangeGuy]

I used to think that the stamp of the bottom of the McC's tin stood for day/month/year but on some recent tins the first two numbers are above 31. Have I been reading the tins wrong?

the tins in question are:

630107, 440706, 650107

My new guess is that is stands for number of tin/month/year without a day. Is this correct?

thanks

[IHT]

their stamps have never been date/month/year.

it is "product # / batch # / 2 digit year" <-- from the owners mouth himself.

if you have any "Virginia #24" flip it over and the first 2 numbers should be 24.

[SUOrangeGuy]

Good to know. Moral of the story is to not buy your first pipe tobacco at a tobacconist who specializes in cigars and has only one small shelf of pipe tobacco.

[IHT]

63rd day of January?

now, C&Ds blends are day/mo/yr (or some order like that, maybe month/day/year).

[SUOrangeGuy]

The tins I first bought all had low numbers so I had no idea that they had no idea what they were talking about.

[Nutiket_32]

Would it be possible for someone who knows about dating systems on a variety of tins make a comprehensive post? Any they didn't know could be added by another gorilla, and then the whole thing put in the getting started sticky. I know every now and then a tin dating question pops up and it would be nice to have a reference. I dont know enough to do it, but I'm sure we'd appreciate if whoever could, did. my and thanks to anyone that does it.