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One thing I always felt was an anti-pattern was in any input where months are numbers they don't explicitly mention in an adjacent label the name of the month.
by mihaic 4y ago
One thing I always felt was an anti-pattern was in any input where months are numbers they don't explicitly mention in an adjacent label the name of the month. Besides the US/UK order confusion, you'd be surprised how often people think August is the 7th month of the year.
- tehlike 4y agoMust be software engineers.
- blitzar 4y agoI have to take off a shoe when it gets to the tail end months of the year.
- drewzero1 4y agoOnly two that don't fit on fingers, so you could leave your shoes on and count feet for November and December. :)
- blitzar 4y agowell well, I think you might be on to something. This is going to save me quite a lot of time, not to mention that I might be able to go back to wearing shoes with laces again and not having my productivity totally destroyed.
- zarzavat 4y agoIt depends on what the date input is for. If it’s for e.g. a credit card expiry date, then the date is already in numbers, so you may have the August=7 mental conversion errors but in the other direction.
- jcstauffer 4y agoWhen I registered for Lufthansa FF, the form was just numbers. My birthdate has two single-digit numbers in it, and I ended up with Month-Date backwards (US vs. rest of the world conventions - e.g., 4/8 is either April 8, or Aug 4). It wasn't an issue, but a minor annoyance to fix it every time I traveled, so that it matched my travel documents. Until a couple of years ago, when I was traveling back from Germany and the flight crew thought it would be nice to surprise me with a bottle of champagne at midnight on my "birthday". They were so proud of doing this over the top "random kindness" (it was pretty thoughtful), and couldn't figure out why I was confused and annoyed. I still feel bad for not acting more excited or grateful...
- hbn 4y agoThere's an unspoken privilege in being born on a day beyond the 12th of any given month, because you'll get a validation error if you mix up the day and month in a form
- pphysch 4y agoEven better, just have the same value for each
- scoot 4y agoYup. 11/11 for me. Can't go to far wrong. Just wish I was born in 2011 (for reasons other than having the same number!) :)
- Lex-2008 4y agooh wow, you don't even need to move your finger when entering digits - it's "one"s all along!
- SnowHill9902 4y agoThere’s a Norwegian joke here.
- madcaptenor 4y agoI was born on December 9. The doctors wanted to do a C-section for my kid on December 9 but I said to my wife that my kid shouldn't have to share a birthday with me, so they scheduled for December 14 instead. This might have been a better argument than not wanting to share.
- user3939382 4y agoI heard a standup with a very dark joke, something to the effect of, 9/11 had a silver lining because now he could remember what number month September was.
- madcaptenor 4y agoI have, occasionally, thought that (for example) October = 8th month because it starts with "Octo". Yes, I know, historically it was.
- FredPret 4y agoThat would be cool. So June would be Hexember, Hexober, or Hexuabry. January would be odd though - Mono-vember.
- madcaptenor 4y agoNot quite - they're off by two. Historically July and August were Quintilis (fifth) and Sextilis (sixth) before they were renamed in terms of Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar.
- corrral 4y agoConfession: I'm nearly 40 damn years old, and I still second-guess month numbers enough that I usually just count starting from January, ticking them off on my fingers, and going through them one by one, to reach the one I need.
- function_seven 4y agoSame here, but only for July and August! I don't know why, but I can easily map 1-6 to Jan-Jun. And I can easily map 9-12 with Sep-Dec. But July and August always trip me up.
- nishs 4y agoFor me, it's Sep, Oct, (and sometimes Nov) that confuse me.
- gjvnq 4y agoHow about a month dropdown with the options below? Jan01, Fev02, Mar03, Apr04, May05, Jun06, Jul07, Ago08, Sep09, Oct10, Nov11, Dec12