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IMO the issue is not the location of the arrows. Most users feel comfortable with such controls.
Also, if the issue was the range difference between jumping one day or one month, then there is an idiom like a single arrowhead > for the smaller jump, and a double one >> for the bigger.
What looks confusing to me is the simultaneous display of two ...
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Design #3 offers a cleaner look. I would be interested in seeing the
overlay.
Design #2 is not intuitive and the arrows feel
disconnected.
Design #1 feels familiar as most date pickers follow
that pattern.
Arrows are an indication to a user that you can move to the next or previous day.
Some users like to have an additional option of entering the date ...
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Why do you want to resort to a calendar picker when you have limited dates available?
If the number of options is less, then a radio button list should suffice. Else, you can use a drop-down combobox.
If you want to be fancy, implement a timeline with markers for the dates and the user knows exactly where the points are and can select them from there.
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Here's a nice selection of date/time pickers to look at:
http://trentrichardson.com/examples/timepicker/
It seems what you want could be facilitated with a date/time picker and a number input for intervals (days I assume). The time of the date/time picker could default to a useful value so the time would usually not need to be set, but it's always there ...
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Always record dates and times in UTC especially when working across time zones. Display dates and times in the user's own time zone.
Even when you record everything in UTC, what does "today" mean? Usually people mean it to be somewhere between today at 0:00 and today at 23:59:59. Which immediately has implications for someone in another timezone, even with ...
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