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My current real world frustration: a date picker for birthdate which starts in current year and I believe the native selector in Android/Chrome doesn't let you select a year. You hit left arrow to go down month by month. Am I crazy and did I miss this? Ive seen it a few times now!

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There usually is a way, but it's often non obvious. I.e. the picker might have a header like July without any visual offset, but clicking could still switch the view to the year picker.

I usually just try various stuff and I can't remember a single time where I didn't find an option eventually, but they're sometimes well hidden

I wonder if there's a way to get the datepicker to open on a specific date... find the median age of all users and open the datepicker in that year haha

It's actually quite easy. I did just such a thing earlier this week.

Usually you can hit the year number and it'll let you skip whole years. But yeah.

iirc the Android 4 date picker had a microscopic hit-area on the date where, if clicked, would display a year-key-in dialog. I don't know if newer ones have this.

I hate date pickers so much that I use the Google Assistant in all its hellish, buggy glory to create appointments for my calendar on my phone.

Google's UX is slightly broken and nobody in the organization cares to fix it. Their date & time pickers are good examples of this.

Flutter provides separate Material date picker [0] and time picker widgets [1], but no date-time picker widget that displays the selected DateTime and lets the user change the date or time. When I asked Flutter team for one 2 years ago, their UX person refused to add it, saying that because it's not in the Material Design Spec [2] [3] that it doesn't belong in the Flutter widget library.

Flutter does implement the excellent iOS DateTime picker [3].

[0] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showDatePicker.html

[1] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showTimePicker.html

[2] https://material.io/components/date-pickers

[3] https://material.io/components/time-pickers

[4] https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino

Everything works with week numbers in my job. It makes sense because everyone is on a 4 week schedule.

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. I can type this entire paragraph faster than picking a date with any goddamn date picker. A little faster I can type:

  - 27 jun 16:30
  - sunday 16:30
  - tomorrow 16:30

Before I switched to using siri, I often typed that into notes or telegram saved messages and then tapped on it to create an event. The amount of bullshit ui developers like to introduce is unbearable.

And now for some mind-blowing ui:

  - team building fri 7pm weekly remind 1h, 30min add coworkers

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