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  Ow my brain! I already get the day and month mixed up, don’t put the year there, please!
context: Drop downs are used because it forces everyone into the same format which is easier for their programming to deal with. >
  
  
  easier for their programming to deal with.
  
  This is generally a poor practice. You adapt your software to your users, not force them to adapt to your software. >
  
  First world problems. Be thankful you can even get on a computer. That goes for OP too. >
  
  I’m very thankful for the privileges I have, but that doesn’t mean I’ll excuse lazy web forms. >
  
  Boo hoo. Do it yourself then >
  
  I do, actually. >
  
  Well clearly not, if it's still an issue >
  
  While I would love to improve all the webforms on the internet, I can only control the ones that I own or build, and I do try to make them as frictionless and intuitive as possible/reasonable.
  If you don’t think usability or good webforms are an important enough problem, you go ahead and solve whatever problems you are interested in. >
  
  I'm clearly trolling now lmfao. Have a good day >
  
  Different options that are provided in UI is actually to maintain the format in the backend, if you manually type it you might cause a typo and also there are multiple format across the world like ddmmyyyyy or mmddyyyy to avoid any such confusion and what system understand the date options is in such way. >
  
  Even within the same format there are numerous ways a person can type it >
  
  If you were born July 1, 1990 would you type 7/1/1990 or 1/7/1990? Depending on where you live, it could be one or the other or maybe even a different way. >
  
  Even worse would be a person born between 2001 and 2012.
  Say, 9 October 2011.
  11/10/09  totally correct, but also totally wrong.  All depends on the convention of the person vs the expectation of the programmer