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Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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287 points mnemonet | 11 comments | 11 Nov 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 1.768s | source | bottom
1. TheSisb2 ◴[11 Nov 25 18:42 UTC] No.45891137[source]▶
Native datepickers fall apart when you need to handle different date formats as user preferences (not as browser default)
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2. 1718627440 ◴[11 Nov 25 19:16 UTC] No.45891529[source]▶
The browser, called the User Agent (UA), IS the program the user uses to interact with a website according to his preferences.
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3. macintux ◴[11 Nov 25 20:09 UTC] No.45892159[source]▶
Maybe. How many users change the defaults, or even know it’s an option?
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4. 1718627440 ◴[11 Nov 25 20:50 UTC] No.45892649{3}[source]▶
When all websites respect their settings and they don't like what the websites do, they will search "how do I change X...", which would point them to the browser settings. If no website respect them, they won't bother. Also these settings come from the OS, which asked the user on install what e.g. date format he wants to use.
5. sedatk ◴[12 Nov 25 05:25 UTC] No.45896659[source]▶
That doesn't always work well in practice. I'm bilingual, and my preference is to use the locale closest to the language of the web site I'm visiting because it feels the most culturally coherent and the least surprising.

I just can't reset my regional settings whenever I switch tabs.

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6. 1718627440 ◴[12 Nov 25 06:28 UTC] No.45896957{3}[source]▶
I also find this annoying, but this is due to websites ignoring the browser preferences. The browser supports specifying multiple languages and the website could select the one that the content is native in.
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7. Klaster_1 ◴[12 Nov 25 07:31 UTC] No.45897303[source]▶
How do you configure Firefox to show date-time picker in 24h format?
8. sedatk ◴[12 Nov 25 07:53 UTC] No.45897439{4}[source]▶
I don’t think there’s a browser setting that lets you use the locale the web site’s language in, is there?
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9. 1718627440 ◴[12 Nov 25 11:09 UTC] No.45898743{5}[source]▶
You set all the language you want with priorities and the webserver knows it's own language and serves you the intersection with the highest priority. Or do I misunderstand your question?
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10. sedatk ◴[12 Nov 25 12:32 UTC] No.45899365{6}[source]▶
I mean the locale, not the language. Many web sites are in a single language and target a specific culture. I want that to be respected by the browser for input type=date and other similar elements based on web site’s language, not the other way around. That’s my preference.
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11. 1718627440 ◴[12 Nov 25 12:39 UTC] No.45899428{7}[source]▶
What your browser calls a language, is in fact a locale. You specify en_US, not English.

That would be equivalent to no setting a preferred locale or adding all the available locales.

   <html lang=...