[staticautomatic]

This has nothing to do with the author's work but what kind of world are we living in where we have a need for more and more polished date pickers?

[untog]

One where we enter dates through touch interfaces very often?

[staticautomatic]

I mean I find it surprising that we still haven't found or generally agreed upon an optimal UI for date picking.

[untog]

IMO at least part of it is that not all date picking contexts are the same. Sometimes I want to do something tomorrow, sometimes it's three months in the future, sometimes it's two years in the past. It's difficult to make a single UI control to cover all of those bases.

[lowercased]

agreed. sometimes I'm trying to select a date in comparison with other dates and other info (what else is already happening on that date, etc). Sometimes I'm trying to see a range of possible dates, sometimes I'm flexible, sometimes I'm not.

The idea of various use cases don't seem to get enough play in UI component design, imo (or maybe I'm just not reading the right bits?). I'd like there to be some "this component is designed for these use cases - A & B. if you desire use case C, look at component X." and so on.