• DeeKay (unregistered)

    I'm the zeroeth commenter.

  • Roby McAndrew (unregistered)

    The Date picker I can forgive. Sometimes I'm thinking about 31st March say, so I do the day first. At this point it's irritating if the widget says "you can't choose 31 yet, the month has defaulted to Feb". As long as it's consistent in the end.

  • dusoft (unregistered)

    Uff, what a retro way to get a PIN reminder messaging your bank. I can just go to a banking app and display the PIN, if I need to.

  • Argle (unregistered)

    I don't like February 29. My date pickers use March 0.

  • I have to know! (unregistered)

    What? What does the Scottish Nation encourage us to OVER use? I want to start over using it NOW!

  • (nodebb) in reply to Roby McAndrew

    I would think that when it tries to build the date from those values and the built-in date system rejects it, give an error message along the lines of "We're sorry, but the date you entered is invalid. Please again.", or maybe a more direct "Hey dunderhead! There are that many days in the that month!"

    try
    Newdate = New Date(YearValue, MonthValue, DayValue)
    Message.Text = ""
catch (ex as ArgumentOutOfRangeException)
    Message.Text = "The entered date is not valid.  Please try again."
end try

    Then check if Message.Text is populated with the error message or not.

    Addendum 2024-03-16 08:05: Oops, my "direct" error message was supposed to have a "not" in it.

  • Chris (unregistered)

    PIN reminder? And you need to send a message using a contact form? That seems completely backwards. This should be a feature of the app, and it should allow you to set a new PIN instead of getting reminded.

  • Neveranull (unregistered)

    Error - this comment successfully posted.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Nutster

    It behaves in the same way as creating a new date in .Net with those invalid numbers: Feb 31st 2024 becomes March 3rd.

    OTOH, if you enter a future date for what is supposed to be an historical event (eg startED reading date), the UI drops out of the picker, but the screen behind it says no future dates plz, and won't save that one until you correct it.

    The really annoying thing about it is that iOS's default date picker handles all of this nicely, but then I guess it wouldn't have the sepia tones of Goodreads?

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