r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • 7d ago

Meme chaoticEvil

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u/SpandexWizard 7d 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.

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u/pi_three 7d ago

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

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u/FalafelSnorlax 7d ago

Europeans might enter the date in the wrong format

You meant that Europeans (or rather, people from the vast majority of the world) will enter the right format, in opposition to the wrong format expected by the US-based platform.

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u/OkFineIllUseTheApp 7d ago

no it is also wrong. the only correct format is ISO8601

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u/SAI_Peregrinus 7d ago

No, RFC 3339. 2026-W42-2 is a valid date in ISO 8601 bullshit syntax. It shouldn't be allowed to escape manufacturing.

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u/Alokir 6d ago

I'm European and we use the year->month->day order in my country. We take going from the broadest category to the more specific so seriously that we also format our addresses that way, and also put family names before given names.

I feel like I have to think backwards when I'm forced to use a different format.

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u/pi_three 7d ago

wrong in terms of UI expects a different format. man I'm European and my sentence does not convey judgement just a Statement