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Hi, I'm back from the dead!

This patterns appears to stop the Datepicker from being controlled by the state of the parent component and moves state into the Datepicker.

I could be missing something in the above statement, but components should be controlled components instead of uncontrolled per the project overview.https://github.com/salesforce/design-system-react/blob/master/docs/codebase-overview.md#use-controlled-components

I'm not sure I follow your comment. Please go to current demo page for Date Picker.
https://react.lightningdesignsystem.com/components/date-pickers/

Let's say you don't want to use the widget to navigate to a date but instead you know the exact date and format you would like to type in. Click on the input box and start typing. You will find that the second you enter a number the picker widget closes and the box auto-completes to a date you didn't intend to enter.

If you have a better solution that would allow users to enter the date using the keyboard manually I would gladly review it.

@interactivellama Could you provide an update on this? I'd really like to get this merged. If you have a better solution I'm all ears.

@interactivellama
Could you please review this MR? We are also facing the same issue in our project

Someone please review this change so we can merge it.

@chuyler I'll take another look. I'm hesitant to change the existing interaction pattern, but I do empathize with the need to support dates not fully written out.

@chuyler I'll take another look. I'm hesitant to change the existing interaction pattern, but I do empathize with the need to support dates not fully written out.

The exsiting interaction pattern does not work. You cannot type dates in, you cannot copy/paste dates from another field. This behavior works fine on standard Salesforce pages but fails with any page developed with this library.