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:The alterations seem great, nice work. However, I'm not entirely convinced that the month names need to abbreviated by default. While I see your point about the issue of space, I personally worry whether reducing all month names to just three letters would suggest a lack of professionalism that, as an encyclopaedia, we need to avoid. It makes sense for an editor to have the option to abbreviate the month names, but could this not be achieved through an optional parameter? [[User:A Thousand Doors|A Thousand Doors]] ([[User talk:A Thousand Doors|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/A Thousand Doors|contribs]]) 01:25, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
::Abbreviating month names by default is an absolutely horrible idea. Like the user above, I agree that is looks unprofessional, and would be better installed as an optional parameter, rather than the default output. <fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">Canuck</fontspan><small><sup>[[User talk:Canuckian89|89 (converse with me)]]</sup></small> 05:58, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
:::In addition, the changed code has caused a complete breakdown in some tables, such as those listed at [[List of Presidents of Israel by longevity]], which looked fine under the previous version. <fontspan colorstyle="color:blue;">Canuck</fontspan><small><sup>[[User talk:Canuckian89|89 (have words with me)]]</sup></small> 06:27, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
::::It appears that this has caused a breakdown across many of our FLs, I'm not sure what the fix is, but check [[List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Anil Kumble]] for one example (many of the FLs in the category have the same problem). &mdash;[[User:SpacemanSpiff|<span style="color:#BA181F;">Spaceman</span>]]'''[[User_talk:SpacemanSpiff|<span style="color:#2B18BA;">Spiff</span>]]''' 07:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
:::::The new template seems to force a new line after it, so that where a date is immediately followed by a reference or comment, the reference/comment is now below the date - making tables longer and scruffier. See Costa Rica and Albania in [[International recognition of Kosovo#UN member states]] for example. [[User:Bazonka|Bazonka]] ([[User talk:Bazonka|talk]]) 07:47, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
::::::I would just like to see the month abbreviations set as an optional parameter, as I think the abbreviations look ugly as a default. <fontspan colorstyle="color:red;">Canuck</fontspan><small><sup>[[User talk:Canuckian89|89 <span style="text-decoration:blink;">(click here!)</span>]]</sup></small> 09:25, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
:::::::The abbreviations stink. How can one guy just go and change it without first trying to reach a consensus among users?[[User:TheFBH|TheFBH]] ([[User talk:TheFBH|talk]]) 21:01, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
::::::::As this template is used on over 10,000 articles consensus should be gained before changing the functionality for existing pages. Please gain consensus or change to operate as the previous version. [[User:Keith D|Keith D]] ([[User talk:Keith D|talk]]) 15:25, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
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Would it be feasible without too much hassle to support quarter notation such as "Q1, 2017"? They should be sorted right after the last month of the quarter, e.g. after March 2017 for Q1, after June for Q2, etc. Also the notation for half-years "H1, 2017" is sometimes useful for government documents or future planned events with only a vague announced time range. — [[User:JFG|JFG]] <sup>[[User talk:JFG|talk]]</sup> 18:40, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
:I'm in support of this idea. The new game list articles frequently come with quarter dates. [[Template:DTBA]] was created to support and sort quarters but it would be better it was merged into this template. <span style="text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #58f;">[[User:Rukario-sama|<fontspan colorstyle="color:#58f;">Rukario</fontspan><font color="#555">-sama</font>]]</span> <span style="text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px #555;">[[User talk:Rukario-sama|<font color="#555">^ㅈ^ -(...)</font>]]</span> 21:45, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
 
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