Also: Firefox on desktop supports time input but does not provide a time picker. This is very confusing in the datetime input where you only see a date picker but then have to type the time manually. There is a long-standing issue open about this.
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I am sorry, but it works for me. Can you please give a link for the issue. in the above website only, when i visit, all date fields have a calendar icon next to them, which when I click, a gtk date picker pops up (is this something that works on linux and not elsewhere or something like that?)
Sure, here is a Screenshot of only the datepicker showing on the datetime input:
And this is the 12 year old bugticket about that problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=datetime
thanks. I think i must have confused the time input and date input.
On AniDB I can enter dd.MM.yyyy or yyyy-MM-dd (text input), which I like a lot. I often prefer reading and writing yyyy-MM-dd.
Some time ago I changed my Windows number format settings to show me yyyy-MM-dd formats. Unfortunately, that broke my webbrowsers date input / datepicker. :( So I had to go back to the standard culture format (de in my case).
The worst is when you work with dates and don't know what is what, or when the behavior is unexpected.
Probably everyone knows about the Excel shitshow of implicitly converted values.
In SQL Server, what do you think 0000-00-00 is when converted to a date, explicitly or implicitly? Well, unfortunately, yyyyMMdd is a safer format than yyyy-MM-dd.
SET LANGUAGE 'us_english'
SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-12-13')
--SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-13-12') -- err
SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-12-13 07:00:00')
--SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-13-12 07:00:00') -- err
SET LANGUAGE 'Deutsch'
SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-12-13')
--SELECT CONVERT(date, '2025-13-12') --err
--SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-12-13 07:00:00') --err !!
SELECT CONVERT(datetime, '2025-13-12 07:00:00')
No, yyyy-dd-MM is not a common or valid German date format. That's usually dd.MM.yyyy.
But worst of all, it changes behavior of the date parsing between date only and date + time types.
The Native inputs always seem to be lacking.