code dating

American  

noun

1. the practice of placing a code indicating the date and site of packaging on certain products, as canned goods.

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Etymology

Origin of code dating

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

Campaigners blame a culture of impunity towards male perpetrators, bolstered by a penal code dating from the 1960s in the period that Jordan occupied the West Bank.

From BBC

Congress based its definition of service businesses on language used in an obscure part of the tax code dating back to the 1990s that applied to the sale of stock by select small businesses.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s a visual code dating at least from the ’70s, tatty and archaic even then.

From New York Times

Many would be content with stop-gaps: a law to make outsourcing easier, say, rather than an overhaul of the sacrosanct labour code dating back to 1943.

From Economist

Trump might, however, have benefited from another odd bit of the tax code dating back to a 1980 bankruptcy reform act.

From Washington Post