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IIRC this is something they’ve investigated for years, but the prototypes didn’t stand up to a simple day/month/year input group in usability testing. Date pickers are hard to do well!

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While we’re discussing datepickers, the new iOS one annoys me. When I have to put in my birthday, it defaults to the current date and wraps any value past that back to today. So I put in my day and month of birth, have it wrap back to today and then start again by setting the year first.

I assume this is configurable and developers just forget to set it, but it’s a weird default.

I really dislike calendar inputs, they are almost always confusing to use. Their inconsistencies moreover lead to further confusion as each calendar seems to be very different.

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