Fix year entry for date in forms

[SharonStrats]

When you enter the year in a form it would save before you completed the year and come up with the wrong year. This should fix that.

This happens in a few places, contacts-pane, profile-pane (edit profile), schedulePane probably meeting-pane as well.

I tested this on schedulePane.js in solid-panes and it worked.

SolidOS/solidos#206

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR aims to fix incorrect year values being persisted from HTML date / datetime-local form inputs by changing when basicField triggers saves, to avoid saving intermediate values while the user is still editing the date.

Changes:

• Detect date / datetime-local input types and introduce deferWhileFocused behavior.
• Skip saving on change events while the date input still has focus.
• Avoid disabling date/datetime inputs during the save flow (while preserving the disable behavior for other field types).

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[Copilot]

@SharonStrats I've opened a new pull request, #708, to work on those changes. Once the pull request is ready, I'll request review from you.

[bourgeoa]

Tested on contacts-pane and works perfectly

[timea-solid]

@bourgeoa I leave it to you to merge when appropriate. Maybe together with the new contacts-pane work?

[TallTed]

I cannot test this locally, but as no comment here nor on the related issue discusses this point --

it is rather tedious having to scroll from year 1 to my birthyear

Anywhere a birthdate or similar date picker shows up, it should start with current date values (e.g., year 2026, not year 1), as this will be a far shorter scroll for the user.

[bourgeoa]

@TallTed it starts from current year by default or date already set

[TallTed]

@bourgeoa — I guess things have changed since 2024, or the "already set" was 1 because of the issue resolved by this PR. All good. :-)