1 “NEW” FOUR (4) DIGIT DATE CODE FORMAT (2011 & LATER):

Code Position: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Date Code Format: Y Y W W I I I I

1.1 Year of  Manufacture (1st and 2nd position of code)

11 = 2011

12 = 2012

13 = 2013

14 = 2014

15 = 2015

16 = 2016

17 = 2017

18 = 2018

19 = 2019

20 = 2020

1.2 Work Week (WW) of  Manufacture (3rd and 4th position of code) 

Defined as Motorola’s week of manufacture + 19 weeks. The week of manufacture shall
rollover to the following year once position 3, 4 exceeds 52. 

(a) if the  is built on WW10 of 2011, date code positions 1-4 would be 1129 
(b) if the battery is built on WW40 of 2011, date code positions 1-4 would be 1207

1.3 Internal (I) Codes (5th, 6th, 7th & 8th position of code) 
Defined as “Internal” Motorola manufacturing tracking codes.

2 “OLD” THREE (3) DIGIT  DATE CODE FORMAT (2011 & BEFORE):
 Code Position: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7  Date Code Format: Y W W I I I I

2.1 Year of Manufacture (1st position of  code)
0 = 2010 (could also mean year 2000)
1 = 2011

2.2 Work Week (WW) of  Manufacture (2nd and 3rd position of code)
 Defined as Motorola’s week of manufacture + 19 weeks. The week of manufacture shall
rollover to the following year once position 2, 3 exceeds 52.  
(a) if the  is built on WW10 of 2010, date code positions 1-3 would be 029
(b) if the  is built on WW40 of 2010, date code positions 1-3 would be 107

2.3 Internal (I) Codes (4th, 5th, 6th & 7th position of  code)

Defined as “Internal” Motorola manufacturing tracking codes.