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by metadat 1257 days ago
What's with the Date-Picker widget on the first screen? Is it supposed to do something or anything at all?

I'm using Brave on Android.

4 comments

It’s to determine your approximate age and remaining lifespan in weeks.
It just uses <input type="date">. Maybe that’s broken on your browser?
I think it will influence just two sections of the content.

1. Telling you how many weeks you have been alive for 2. What people usually focus on during the period of life you're in, according to research

You're supposed to pick when you were born, which allows you to "scroll on".

But also on Android -- am I missing something or am I supposed to scroll backwards month by month to 1989?

On Android/Firefox, same issue. I just closed the site.

There is 0% chance I would go month-by-month to anything before 2010. And I would still have 20 more years.

Closed the site as well. Horrible input field.
Tapping on the year at the top in the date picker popup should open a year chooser. This should be the native Android date picker (<input type="date"> in the HTML), e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/56789808/623763.
At least on android chrome I could click on year number (top of the selection table) to pick the year.
Thanks for this this comment, at least on Huawei's version of Android UI it's not at all obvious that the year is a button.