M53 has some ideas which I've never gotten 'round to implementing (and, to be honest, which I didn't really like).

In T115863#1735973, @matmarex wrote:

M53 has some ideas which I've never gotten 'round to implementing (and, to be honest, which I didn't really like).

I too think that it is slightly out of place. If we are providing today, we might as well add tomorrow and yesterday, and that sort of beats the point of the calendar widget and makes it cluttered too.

In the context of improving mw.ForeignStructuredUpload.BookletLayout we could use the lastModifiedDate of the file to pre-fill this field: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/247513

@Pginer-WMF, does that sound like a better idea?

In T115863#1737319, @Prtksxna wrote:

In the context of improving mw.ForeignStructuredUpload.BookletLayout we could use the lastModifiedDate of the file to pre-fill this field: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/247513

@Pginer-WMF, does that sound like a better idea?

That is definitely a good idea. In essence my proposal was about facilitate the date input by surfacing likely values more. We may still want to facilitate things when that information is missing or may be wrong, but that may be less critical if it is more of an edge case.

Jut to clarify, the idea of facilitating the selection of today as a usual value does not necessarily require adding more controls as the ticket description suggests. Some possible ideas include to select the present day as the user focus on the control, or using a link as a quick action in the placeholder ("Select today or another date").

In T115863#1738056, @Pginer-WMF wrote:

That is definitely a good idea. In essence my proposal was about facilitate the date input by surfacing likely values more. We may still want to facilitate things when that information is missing or may be wrong, but that may be less critical if it is more of an edge case.

Cool. We should have a lastModified on all files, even if its wrong.

Change 247513 had a related patch set uploaded (by Prtksxna):
mw.ForeignStructuredUpload.BookletLayout: Use lastModified as default date

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/247513

In T115863#1781838, @Esanders wrote:

lastModified is an improvment but we should use the EXIF data if it is available.

Updated the patch to use EXIF where available.

Change 247513 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.ForeignStructuredUpload.BookletLayout: Use lastModified or EXIF date

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/247513