Nate Johnson has a fun rant about datetime ranges in SQL Server and date pickers:
I mean, I’m not that old, but spinning thru a few decades is still slower than just typing 4 digits on my keyboard — especially if your input-box is smart enough to flip my keyboard into “numeric only” mode.
Another seemingly popular date-picker UX is the “calendar control”. Oh gawd. It’s horrible! Clicking thru pages and pages of months to find and click (tap?) on an itty bitty day box, only to realize “Oh crap, that was the wrong year… ok let me go back.. click, click, tap..” ad-nauseum.
Food for thought.