Date Selecting... with a twist!

A lot of the Arora core relies on dates.  Dates of when classes start, when people register, when facilities requests are.....etc.  Some of these dates are generated by the application, but a lot of them need to be entered by users.  Which creates a bit of a problem... there are a lot of way of writing something like Wednesday, June 20 2007.  It can be 6/20/2007, 6-20-2007, 2007-6-20, next Wednesday... lots of options.

So we are just going to give the user this nice looking, very functional calendar:

... and done!

Not quite...that's a lot of clicking for staff/administrators.  We like thinking outside the box to make some cool things happen... so of course we added our own TWIST.  A smart date selector... that's right... SMART.  Check it out!

It accepts all sorts of input, including: "next wednesday", "last monday", "today", "tomorrow","15th feb", "january 23 2009"... and some classic favorites ... "5/19/1985".  

Once again: Cutting down data entry, one click at a time.