{"id":98155,"date":"2018-03-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=98155"},"modified":"2019-12-18T07:30:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T15:30:25","slug":"20180305-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20180305-00\/?p=98155","title":{"rendered":"Inadvertently designing a horrible time and date picker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps inspired by the tongue-in-cheek competition to design the worst volume control<\/a>, an internal tool here at Microsoft managed to create the worst time and date picker:<\/p>\n

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Prev<\/div>\n
January 2017<\/b><\/div>\n
Next<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
S<\/th>\nM<\/th>\nT<\/th>\nW<\/th>\nT<\/th>\nF<\/th>\nS<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\n16<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n18<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n20<\/td>\n21<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22<\/td>\n23<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n25<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n30<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time<\/b><\/td>\n04:29<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hour<\/b><\/td>\n\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Minute<\/b><\/td>\n\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Okay, the date-picking part isn’t so bad (aside from the fact that everything is varying shades of gray<\/a>), but using sliders to select the time?<\/p>\n

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Perhaps inspired by the worst possible volume control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-98155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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