User:Timeshifter/Sandbox185

Date columns from different versions of List of reported UFO sightings. First column in the first table below uses   and the second column uses Date table sorting. See the wikitext.

See:
 * Help:Sortable tables
 * Help:Sortable tables

Both columns sort correctly. MOS:DATE and the following section MOS:BADDATE allow both formats, but the first column with   is much easier to implement.

MOS:SIMPLIFY: See:   in this section: Help:HTML in wikitext. is not mentioned there.

Either column will wrap in a wide table with many columns and/or a verbose notes column.