Auto switch fields when doing absolute time periods

[markwalkom]

When picking an absolute time period it involves manually typing timestamps, ie;

It'd be awesome if a user could click in (eg in the example above) the hour field, type 21 and then we jumped into the minute field and highlighted that to prompt the user to either accept or replace the values. Then repeat for seconds and milliseconds. Of if you started in the year field, do the same.

Currently if you went to enter 21:00:00.000 and just typed the values, you'd get something like 210000000:00:00.000 (if you started at 01:00:00.000) as we don't validate the individual fields.

Essentially we shouldn't rely on the user to only put in the N relevant values each field actually requires, and we should shift to the next field when those N values have been entered.

[dhruvdutt]

@lukasolson Is this covered in #10433

[lukasolson]

@dhruvdutt Not really, this has more to do with how you manually input dates, not what date is selected when you click on it in the picker.

[dhruvdutt]

Alright. I'll take a look at it 👀 and see what I can contribute. ✋

[timroes]

The way the new datepicker is built, this doesn't make much sense anymore, since every side of the range (from/to) can be absolute or relative and are in two separate popups. So these two input fields are not closely related to each other anymore.