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Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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286 points mnemonet | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 14:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | 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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1. parpfish ◴[12 Nov 25 01:42 UTC] No.45895437[source]▶
i hate that computers define 'today' and 'tomorrow' on days centered on midnight.

several times this has lead to problems when i'm doing a late-night work binge that cross into 12am and i see relative date terms that confuse me.

if you're out with some friends and it's 12:15 AM and you say "i really need to go, i have a big day tomorrow" it's understood that that means the big day is on this calendar date but after i wake up and NOT the following day.