[Bug 74670] Re: GNOME Clock has duplicate 0x20's on single-figure dates

[Alex Jones]

Because it would be consistent with itself. In a monospace terminal, the
width of a space is equal to the width of a digit, so dates line up in,
e.g. "ls". This isn't the case with variable-width fonts and it just
looks silly to have inconsistent spacing between, e.g.
"Fri··9·Feb,·17:42" and "Sat·10·Feb,·17:42".

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GNOME Clock has duplicate 0x20's on single-figure dates
https://launchpad.net/bugs/74670