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Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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286 points mnemonet | 2 comments | 11 Nov 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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kmoser ◴[11 Nov 25 18:44 UTC] No.45891157[source]▶
> Travel booking often has a fixed schedule with limited time options, such as every 15 minutes. Relative dates like “Today” and “Tomorrow” can be easier to understand.

Except when you're booking a flight and you're not sure whether "today" is based on your local time, the server's local time, or GMT. (I often book flights right about midnight and find words like "today" and "tomorrow" to be completely confusing.)

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cubefox ◴[11 Nov 25 21:42 UTC] No.45893275[source]▶
> Except when you're booking a flight and you're not sure whether "today" is based on your local time, the server's local time, or GMT.

But the same issue exists with explicit dates like "November 12".

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1. kmoser ◴[11 Nov 25 21:50 UTC] No.45893373[source]▶
Not really, because the standard in air travel is that departure and arrival dates and times are always local to the departure or arrival airport, regardless of where you are when you book the flight (or what time it is locally when you book).
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2. PaulDavisThe1st ◴[12 Nov 25 16:06 UTC] No.45901861[source]▶
and yet google calendar by default translates them into the current (GPS-based) timezone ....