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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • The result is that you buy either Honey or Syrup, you know what you get, and you get what you pay for.

    You would think so, but the EU did an investigation back in 2022 and found that almost half of all honey imported into the EU is (illegally) blended with sugar syrup. If you’re buying honey labeled as a blend of EU and non-EU honey (which is almost all honey available on supermarket shelves) there’s a large chance you’re buying a sugar blend.

    Current officially sanctioned honey tests are not capable of detecting fake honey. New testing methodology has been agreed upon as a result, but it will take a few years until those are internationally recognised.

    If you want to be certain that what you’re buying is real honey, the only real option is to buy directly from a local producer.



  • What he means is, if you want to download the document from ISO that describes the standard, you have to pay a fee. Here’s their store page: click.

    It’s about 190 USD for a 38 page document describing the rules of the standard. There’s another document with extensions for a similar price. Quite pricey for a PDF file obviously, and the RFC is free to download.

    On the other hand, no one in the history of time has gone “hmm, I don’t know how ISO-8601 works, let me go buy this document from the ISO store to figure it out.” Most people just call datetime.isoformat() or whatever their library function is called.