Understanding Dell Serial Number Date Code/Manufacture Date

What do all the digits mean on Dell Serial Number labels?

CC-PPPPPP-aaaaa-YMD-bbbb

CC is the country code (CN for China, KR for Korea etc). PPPPPP is the Dell part number. Y is the final digit of the year; the decade is not recorded, as this digit wraps every ten years. M is the base 36 hexadecimal month number, and D is the base-36 day number.

The digits aaaaa  and bbbb are numbers that are only stored at Dell Corporation.

Sample:

The following two(2) monitors were both manufactured on 12/08 according to the Serial number sticker.

CN-0X876H-72872-8CG-1MMU

CN-0X876H-72872-8CG-169U

So I guess you could still say that the date is imbedded in there somehow.  It does have an 8 in it, but I don't know how you get December out of that.

8CG is the key here

8= Year = 2008

C= Month Jan=1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C= Dec.

G= Day - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E, F, G=16th

 This is the same process on all Dell Serial numbers including Laptop batteries, memory, hard drives, motherboards, ext.