Gawith, Hoggarth, & Co. Ltd. Production Date Code Format

Contents

• Introduction
• Gawith Hoggarth Production Date Code Format Overview
• Calculating the Date From the Production Date Code
  • Production Month-Year Code Reference Chart

Introduction

Gawith, Hoggarth, & Co. Ltd. manufacturer tobacco products at their facility in Kendal, England, and they often incorporate on their product packaging a production date code.

Gawith Hoggarth Production Date Code Format Overview

The Gawith Hoggarth production date code takes the form of AA BBB, where value AA plainly expresses the day of the month of production in the Gregorian calendar in two-digit format and value BBB equals a three-digit month-year code.

Calculating the Date From the Production Date Code

To calculate the date of production of a Gawith Hoggarth tobacco product from the production date code with the code 25 282 for the sake of example:

• The first segment of the production date code plainly expresses the day of the month of production in the Gregorian calendar system. In this example the value is 25 which indicates the twenty-fifth day of the month.
• The second segment is a month-year code for which the index value 001 corresponds to 1995-12 and increments by a value of one for each subsequent month. A convenient way to discern the production month-year is to reference the month-year code chart provided. In this example the code is 282 which corresponds to 2019-06.
• Contextualise the production values by combining them. In this example the production date code conveys production on 2019-06-25.

Production Month-Year Code Reference Chart