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Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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287 points mnemonet | 1 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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cryptoz ◴[11 Nov 25 19:01 UTC] No.45891350[source]▶
Montreal public transit times used to be on some kind of like, 28-hour clock. Bus times after midnight would be labelled 27:30 or something. Suuuper confusing. It sounds so bizarre in fact, that I'm doubting my memory a bit, but I'm certain it was like that (say around 2006 or so).
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1. pasc1878 ◴[12 Nov 25 06:21 UTC] No.45896920[source]▶
UK buses and trains do this.

I think the reason is for Day return tickets ie those where you can go out and come back on the same day. It allows the return to be after midnight which makes sense for example going to a theatre show or pub that shuts at 11pm