Template talk:Date

Purpose
What is the point of having this template? It's not difficult to type out "13 Mar 2015" in a table. --Dialexio (talk) 15:37, 13 March 2015 (UTC) This isn't a good analogy, but why bother indenting template code with comment tags when one could just not indent at all? Because it's easier to read. What's easier to understand at first glance:  or  ? I don't know about you, but I'd prefer the second option (and so does Adam). So again, it's not necessary, but it makes the markup easier to read. --5urd (talk) 16:37, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Dates should be written out with a non-breaking space between the "items".   produces  . Sure, we could litter the source with   escape codes, but it's easier to understand the markup without syntax highlighting or any other fun stuff.
 * Okay, that makes more sense. (I've never indented HTML with comments, but I digress.) But wouldn't it have been easier to just assign a fixed width or use CSS ( or  )? --Dialexio (talk) 02:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
 * We could, but that would mean that everywhere we use a date, we have to wrap it in a  tag. I personally would prefer   over  . Or did you mean, why is   instead of  ? For that, there is no real reason other than, I guess, I just didn't think of that. Also, I'm planning on adding an HTML5 &lt;time&gt; tag around the date with the machine-readable   attribute. We could then add   to MediaWiki:Common.css. --5urd (talk) 19:20, 14 March 2015 (UTC)