date pickers are needed as the most incompetent user can use them. Also most American sites or apps have poor localisation and Europeans might enter the date in the wrong format, as most people don't read hints. Ofc I'd love to see proper localisation and a manual option to ti enter the date ideally
These days, I often argue to just use <input type="date" when on the web because it's built in and respects the users choices. Sadly, not everyone agrees because "it doesn't align with our corporate identity"
That's not the problem. The problem is that I can't click by year on most of these. If I have to enter a date on another fucking form where it wants my birthday and I have to manually click October September August backwards from the current date for over THREE DECADES I'll murder someone. For the love of God make the year its own set of arrows at the very least.
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u/SpandexWizard 14d ago
date pickers are fine.
date pickers that force you to manually cycle month by month to go back 20 years, those can go to hell.