Comments on A Pinoy's guide to Taiwan 台灣: Taiwan Calendar System - What's wrong with my Oran...

I didn't read the title and thought that the Taiwa...

2009-04-15T15:36:00.000-07:00

I didn't read the title and thought that the Taiwanese don't care if they sell expired goods.

Nice blog, this is my first visit!

I figured it was something like that, but I could ...

2008-07-13T01:01:00.000-07:00

I figured it was something like that, but I could not for the life of me figure out what 97 had to do with anything. :)

Luckily I found your blog. I was confused when I w...

2008-04-17T11:47:00.000-07:00

Luckily I found your blog. I was confused when I was looking through First Day Cover's cancellation mark on it which was showing 97 instead of 2008. At first I thought I was the Chinese Lunar Year, but it doesn't match with it neither. I was somehow sure there must be some sort year system involved.
Thanks for the explanation,dude.

Oh my goodness, I have to know math when buying or...

2008-03-04T22:34:00.000-08:00

Oh my goodness, I have to know math when buying orange juice? I would be better off sticking with water.

thanks for the lesson, learned something about Tai...

2008-03-03T06:39:00.000-08:00

thanks for the lesson, learned something about Taiwan

@la.traducteuseYeah! Not only do you have to "gues...

2008-03-01T07:47:00.000-08:00

@la.traducteuse

Yeah! Not only do you have to "guess" what the chinese character's mean (which one's the expiration)... you also have to guess what the date format is (is the first two numbers the month? day? or year?). And lastly, if they are using the Taiwan year (97)... whew! food shopping is very stressful! ^^

@Gorgeous Traveller (Marie)My tummy's still ok... ...

2008-03-01T07:43:00.000-08:00

@Gorgeous Traveller (Marie)

My tummy's still ok... so far ^^ Thanks!

@thomasWow! It's year 20 in Japan? Now that's conf...

2008-03-01T07:41:00.000-08:00

@thomas

Wow! It's year 20 in Japan? Now that's confusing... if I will go to Japan, I have to adjust my clock (timezone) and my calendar too! ^^

I get really confused when checking the dates on f...

2008-03-01T02:57:00.000-08:00

I get really confused when checking the dates on food as I'm not good at math. There're many systems used here - local food with the republic year, imported food with dates like yyyymmdd, ddmmyy, mmddyy. Sometimes I really want to scream, 'this went off ages ago!'

Thats different but interesting! :) Hope your tumm...

2008-02-29T01:04:00.000-08:00

Thats different but interesting! :) Hope your tummy's okay tomorrow! hihi!

Marie

Interesting. Japan has has a different calender ye...

2008-02-28T16:48:00.000-08:00

Interesting. Japan has has a different calender year too which corresponds to the Emperor's age. It is now the year 20.

Haha! Hmm... I am pretty confident that the "97" o...

2008-02-28T04:47:00.000-08:00

Haha! Hmm... I am pretty confident that the "97" on this orange juice refers to the Taiwan year and not 1997... I hope ^^

Er.. ok. Let's hope that you're still up and runni...

2008-02-28T04:43:00.000-08:00

Er.. ok. Let's hope that you're still up and running (and blogging)tomorrow. :p