Yeah, I've been contemplating making that same change. There are several places where dates are displayed in tables and my experience was that browsers were pretty stupid and frequently chose to make the date column too narrow such that every single row became two lines high. Preventing browsers from making this choice mostly lead to better presentation where the widest column (usually 'title') was made narrower and most rows would be single lines and only the rows with the longest titles took up two lines. And wrapping of titles is less of a problem than wrapping something regular like a date -- where you lose having the years lined and now have numbers lined up vertically but only every other one is a year, making the information much harder to scan.

But that improvement isn't worth the ugliness that shows up in many contexts. I was thinking that this change was a change I had made only to my personal settings. But I think we lack a personal setting for "how to format dates compactly" so there are several tables that just hard-code the formatting of dates.

- tye        

In reply to Re: Not using "non-breaking hyphen" U+8209 in timestamps (thanks) by tye
in thread Not using "non-breaking hyphen" U+8209 in timestamps by jdporter

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