quicksilver/Quicksilver — Issue #511: Forced fixed-width dates in plugin-list
Author: HenningJ
Created: 2011-10-23 20:21:15+00:00
State: open
Labels: Visual

ß61 changed the date display in the plugin-list from a forced US-format (mm/dd/yyyy) to the format defined in System Preferences -> Language & Text -> Formats -> Dates -> Short.
If this is defined without leading zeros (8/9/11 instead of 08/09/11), the dates in the plugin-list has a very non-uniform look, which distracts from the actual information. You tend to look at the length of the date instead of the date itself.

So, I would like a fixed-width format, depending on the user defined format in the system preferences. So, If the user has defined d/m/yyyy, it should still display dd/mm/yyyy for all dates.

This is how it can look now (depending the system preferences):

![Bad example](http://henningj.com/pluginListBad.png)

This is how I'd like it to look (all dates the same width):

![Good example](http://henningj.com/pluginListGood.png)

Patrick mentioned it might be possible by playing with NSDateFormatter of the IB 'Date Formatter' of that column.