How does Berlin Transport Validation Stamp mark current date and/or expiry date?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 1 Aug, 2023
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Note: I am adding my own observations as an answer, but would love to get a definitive explanation to the validation stamp contents.
As mentioned in my own edits,
- Do and Fr means days of the week,
- 45 is the week number (7th to 13th Nov)
- 11:40 is time
- Duration is printed just below stamp, 7-tag in first image, Ein….something in second, so 7 days and One (Journey?)
As detailed un below screenshot taken from BVG’s website, week long ticket with end on 7th day Midnight.
Text of above Screenshot:
7-Day-Ticket
Travel as often as you want for seven consecutive calendar days.
The 7-Day-Ticket is valid for seven consecutive calendar days. Validity begins on the first day of the validity period printed on the ticket or from the time of validation and ends on the seventh calendar day, at midnight. For example, from validation at 9.30 a.m. on a Tuesday until midnight on the following Monday.
The Ticket is transferable and can also be used from other persons.
After the time-of-day on the stamp is a day-of-week in letters and a week number in numbers.
The 7-day ticket is stamped on Friday of week 45 in 2016.
The single ticket from Tegel is stamped on Thursday (in German: Donnerstag) of week 45 in 2016.
The stamp shows the date and time you validated the ticket, which is when the validity begins. The machines are not smart enough to know which kind of ticket you validate, but will put the same stamp on any piece of paper you stick into them.
If you hold on to your ticket for 10 years and they don’t change the design in the meantime, you could ride on it once again ….
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘
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