Entry representing a particular day or a range/group of days.
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Most User-Friendly Form Fields for Entering Date/Time?
What are the different ways to have fields in an application for date, time, or both? What are the pros and cons for each?
The most common seem to be a combination of 2–3 drop-downs, or some form ...
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What's the best way to present date of birth form fields?
I am building a form that requires users to enter in their DOB. What is the best practice for this? I have identified 3 basic options:
Free Text Field Users are able to enter day, month and year in ...
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Better way for users to select a date range
In my application, users select a date range for which results are required. The UI looks something like this:
My users don't like this, because the date picker requires them to select a specific ...
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2answers
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Formatting relative dates and times
First, when I talk about relative times (or would dates be more accurate?), I mean these 4 minutes ago, 1 hour ago, etc.
When should they be used? With what degree of precision? Shouldn't it be the ...
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Should date validation allow “091011”?
Should I allow users to input the MMDDYY or MMDDYYYY format for a date?
That is, should any date validation logic not trigger a validation error if the user just wants to put in the numbers without ...
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How should times be aligned in a column
I have a data grid of three columns of type [Time, Decimal, Decimal]. All records in the decimal columns have the same number of decimal places. I have right aligned these as they're numeric.
But I ...
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How to present presets relating to a date range picker
We are developing a date ranger picker and are in doubt how to present preset time periods.
The scenario is this: EITHER the user utilizes a preset period, e.g.
Next 7 days
Next 3 months
Latest 7 ...
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1answer
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Displaying varying prices
The holiday accommodations my company rents out have varying prices, depending on the day of arrival and the duration of the stay. Currently, these prices are charted in a scrollable table, with on ...
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Best way to display a date range
I'm looking for the best way to display a date range in text that could potentially span across 2 lines. Currently I simply have something like "01-Jan-2013 -> 05-Jan-2013" with the arrow being an ...
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Date picker subtleties: Input year by using numeric keys
We are developing a date picker and have run into a problem related to interpretation of user input.
Suppose you have a date picker as the one in the picture below and the user is to change the year ...
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How to interpret vague date input in a search query
This is a follow-up to this question Would an "around" search token make any sense?
If someone is performing a search by date would having an "around" this date feature be useful, and if ...
