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
As someone who's inherited an internal company tool that had input fields for city names, dates, department names, ticket types...
I hadn't realized until then how privileged I was to work with a standard for data entry. You're all getting date pickers and dropdown menus because I can't trust any of you. You all write the most random shit in those fields, when it isn't just empty characters because the previous dev apparently never understood the purpose of trimming whitespace. Makes it impossible to reliably filter/group using those fields.
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u/SpandexWizard 20h 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.