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by julianozen 20 days ago
Yes, but having worked on the date picker at Airbnb I can assure you almost every custom implementation (probably ours too!) messes up date picking in some region in an important way
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Except...?
There’s no except. They all suck in some specific way.
I'm surprised no browser has a HTML based implementation which has been copied/extended in styling.
Just let me type the date in the user's local format and put in the dashes/slashes with a regex (and remove them again before applying insert/Backspace/Delete). Almost always this is so messed up and broken. And slow.

Sigh. You anonymous code authors are always working to bring the user down, even when there is a 1000000:1 ratio between them and you.

"Just"

Spoken like someone who's never had to work on a date picker.