Entry representing a particular day or a range/group of days.
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Do American users also confuse the day and the month in dates like 01/02/2013
Almost everywhere outside the United States, when short dates, e.g. 01/02/2013, are shown on computer screens, the user can't be sure whether the first two digits represent the day or the month. Is it ...
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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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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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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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2answers
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Do spinner-based date pickers on iOS & Android detract from the user's experience?
Generally speaking, the rule of thumb on mobile devices is to follow the platform conventions, and that native controls are almost always better than custom UIs. However, I'm at a loss as to whether ...
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When should a year be added to a timestamp?
Stack Exchange uses relative timestamps to indicate when an action occurred; a question was asked, edit was made etc. This is done as far back as "2 days ago"; anything prior to exactly 48 hours ago ...
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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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6answers
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What control to use to select multiple months?
I want to offer the users a way to select a range of months within a year. The selected months are used to display a table of data. The control should be placed above the table and since vertical ...
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Complicated date field with range option
Context: I'm designing a web form that allows users to enter information about some work they've created (title, description, image, etc).
One of the optional fields will be a date field. After ...
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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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friendly version of date formats
The users of my application have the ability to choose their prefered date format between:
dd/mm/yyyy
mm/dd/yyyy
yyyy-mm-dd
The 1st one (which has the Java pattern dd/MM/yyyy) produces 31/12/2011.
...
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3answers
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Pros/Cons of date- and datetimepickers [closed]
What pros and cons do you experience when using datepickers in web forms or software?
What do you think is missing sometimes?
What bugs you when using a datepicker?
I want to know, either from ...
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What is the best way to display date validation errors?
I am performing date validation on several forms. This validation includes making sure a date does not fall on a weekend, does not fall on a major holiday, is at least 3 business days from the current ...
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4answers
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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 ...
8
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6answers
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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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6answers
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What is the fastest UI to enter a date within the last 30 days?
My sales reps have a long list (200+) of their accounts and they need to enter the last date they visited each account. Most of the time this date will be within the last 30 days. What's the fastest ...
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Date Range: Is automatically making “To” the same as “From” a good practice when searching data in the past?
I couldn't think of a more descriptive title, but this is what I'm wondering:
I have a Date Range selector box. It's quite straightforward, it has two calendars, one for the "From" date, and another ...
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3answers
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Converting two character dates into four character dates
I have an application that converts the following invalid dates, with only two-character years into a valid date format automatically while the user's filling out the form:
(NOTE: The application is ...
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6answers
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How to display date and time
I want to present the date in a web page where users leave items that will be picked up by other users (the purpose of the site is not important).
I was thinking of representing the date in the ...
6
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2answers
176 views
What is the best way to ask for repeating dates?
I've always struggled with the best way to allow a user to enter a repeating date. For example, scheduling a task you need to do repeatedly. There are a few different ways this can be expressed...
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7answers
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Which date format to use?
In an application when you are showing a date to someone (and you don't know their preferred format), what date format should you use? USA or Rest-of-the-world?
For reference if anyone is not ...
5
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6answers
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Recomendation for choosing a start date / month
I've got a few forms on my web app that require a start date, which is always the first of a month. Currently i'm using the jQuery date picker plugin that disables every day of the month except the ...
5
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3answers
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In a ComboBox containing years, should I sort them in ascending or descending order?
My guess is descending, but I want to have some theoretical background. I was using an application and my intuition told me to click the scroll bar down just to find previous years, and I felt ...
5
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2answers
707 views
Date range picker in mobile app
In my current project, I'd like to filter a list by a date range.
I'm not sure how I should design the interface in such a way that it's as easy as possible to select a range. My first idea was to ...
5
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1answer
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Formatting “days” in a timespan
When formatting timespans in short form for something like a stopwatch, I know the standard in most places is to use hh:mm:ss.ff (where "f" is "fractional second"). Some places will use mm' ss" ff, ...
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2answers
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Dealing with Effective Dates in an Administrative Application
When dealing with Insurance based information, we often need to implement the use of Effective Dates on most of our data. There are numerous reasons for this that I won't get into, needless to say ...
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5answers
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What alternatives to calendars exist for inputing dates on websites?
Inputing dates is going through changes on the internet, and in web/user interface design as well.
Currently, I'm implementing <input type="date">, as this provides excellent usability on mobile ...
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2answers
365 views
Natural UI: Best way to show a time range and interact with it
I have a time range filter (for a web app, desktop and mobile) that looks like this:
In this case, time is not relative to the user in terms of number of days (7 days ago), but it respects the ...
4
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6answers
561 views
Unambiguous way to display timezone information in a compact manner
When displaying a listing of events, each with their own date, time, and timezone, I'd like to present the timezone that the given event has been assigned. However, there is potentially a lot of ...
4
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3answers
188 views
When Users Select a Ship Date During Holiday
In a shopping cart where a user can select their preferred ship date, how would you alert them when a date is a holiday or weekend? Would you use processing to not allow it? Add an alert that it would ...
4
votes
6answers
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Best way to display numerous dates on a data form?
I've got the task of finding a way to display numerous (10) dates on a data entry form. They pertain to the dates that certain paperwork was received, acknowledged, evaluated, etc.
All the dates are ...
4
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2answers
186 views
What is the best way to display when a user last logged in to an application?
What is the best way to display when a user last logged in to an application?
We are developing a web app where the emphasis is on simplicity. Managers of the application are likely to be ...
4
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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 ...
4
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3answers
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Improve display of date range inside a table
I have been taking a look at this post, but it is not exactly what I am looking for, plus I have hour and minutes and is inside a table.
My current table is this one (bigger image):
The problem I ...
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4answers
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Relative dates/times- Rounding and how accurate?
I was reading this question about formatting relative dates and times, but there are still some issue that I felt have not been addressed yet.
I would like to:
Keep relative times to just 1 unit, ...
4
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1answer
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Interface design for managing overlapping date periods
I am trying to design an interface to manage which team a person belongs to at any point. I would like it to be really easy to make small changes (e.g. fix a start date for a previous team ...
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1answer
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Comparing data with two sets of dates
Has anyone seen an interface that allows users to select two different sets of dates to compare data? And then the corresponding data in tables and/or graph form?
4
votes
1answer
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How to create a date range picker with a “present” option
I'm trying to design a date range picker, with the caveat that there be a way to designate the end date as "present".
Has anyone seen a clever way of doing this without the need for a check box?
...
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2answers
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What should be ideal date on calendar icon?
I am designing a calendar icon for an app, I am putting a random date right now on it, what should be ideal date that I should put. Is there any usability research done on the same?
I know the best ...
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2answers
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How to represent “Beginning of Time” and “Infinite Future”
I am working on a reporting application and we fetch several records based on their start/end date ranges. Users can choose to leave both start and/or end dates blank.
Examples:
Example 1 - Date: ...
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3answers
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Best way to show and sort by dates when the item may be repeating/recurring?
Currently this website has a list of FooBars, which may be sorted by date:
I am adding functionality to allow a FooBar to be repeated, or a recurring FooBar
e.g.
Weekly on Mondays and Tuesdays
...
3
votes
5answers
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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 ...
3
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2answers
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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 ...
3
votes
1answer
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What's the most natural way of handling end-dates and midnight?
We run promotions that end at midnight. I.e. 24:00. So if I want something to run from the 24th to the 25th it really means 0:00 24th -> 0.00 25th as far as the implementation details go. Should I ...
3
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1answer
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Data Visualisation For Scheduling
What is the best method for defining a scheduler visualisation (and editor)? Basically I think I am looking for something similar to a Gantt chart (not quite the same) where I have a start and end ...
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2answers
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How fluent should filters be?
I have a few types of filters for a table and they should be concatenated.
So in the end I should get something like this:
URL contains google.com and Visits > 1000 and Date is before 30.12.2011
...
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2answers
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Time slot selection
I'm on a quest to find the most user friendly way to offer a time slot selection to make an appointment in a company's calendar/agenda.
It doesn't really matter much interface-wise, but because it ...
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4answers
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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 ...
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1answer
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Globalization Patterns for Dates Without Year
In my application, there is a field that represents the end of the accounting year for an entity. This "date" is the same every year, so what we currently present to the user is field with a month ...
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2answers
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Ambiguity using a Sortable List of Dates
I have a basic vertical list of dates which can each be dragged to reorder the list, with the goal being to allow the user to change the order and date of each item to their liking.
An example list ...
