Saturday, November 17, 2018

Does It Click?

Earlier today I was filling out an online registration form for a company I'm thinking about working with. The form asked all of the standard questions...name, email address, street address, and birthday. Clicking on that last text box brought up a scrolling calendar with this month as the default.

However, the only way to get to my birth month and year was to scroll all of the way back. Month by month. That's a lot of clicks! I was curious just how many clicks, so I checked with the Calculator.net Date Calculator. The site told me that there was 718 months and several days between my natal day and today.

Because of all of the extra work, I may or may not finish filling out the form and submitting it. If I do, I wonder how long it will take me to click on the little arrow 718 times?


Five years ago today: Lazy Lasagna
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11 comments:

  1. ChristineNovember 17, 2018 at 10:24 PM

    this sounds as if they should fix it.

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    1. Kathy GNovember 18, 2018 at 9:39 AM

      Either they did, or I just wasn't clicking in the right place. (See my reply to Victor.) Seems to me it shouldn't be as hard as it was.

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  2. Victor S E MoubarakNovember 18, 2018 at 3:39 AM

    ?????

    Click the year of your birth first, then month and date.

    God bless.

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    1. Kathy GNovember 18, 2018 at 9:36 AM

      Victor, you're my hero! Thanks to your advice I clicked on "November 2018". That brought up a drop down list of months by year. I was able to scroll back to my birth year, then find the correct month and day. Problem solved!

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    2. Victor S E MoubarakNovember 18, 2018 at 5:16 PM

      I just did it on the photo you posted above and it works.

      God bless.

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  3. Joanne NoragonNovember 18, 2018 at 10:07 AM

    I hate all this stuff that is intuitive to the next generation.

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    1. Kathy GNovember 18, 2018 at 5:34 PM

      I know! And I consider myself more computer savvy than many other people my age.

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  4. StrayerNovember 19, 2018 at 9:54 AM

    Oh brother! they need a new web designer, or at least better forms. Is that the job opening? Should be, sounds like, lol.

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  5. Karen @BakingInATornadoNovember 20, 2018 at 9:42 AM

    I would think that they would design their site to make it easy to apply, not to make people think it's just not worth the trouble.

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