Initial version of date column

[m-akinc]

Pull Request

🤨 Rationale

Part of #1014

👩‍💻 Implementation

This is the first, basic version of the column. It does not support any configuration. It always formats the datetime in the way that will become the default when we later add format configuration. The column derives from TableColumnTextBase.

• component defined
• initial Storybook stories/documentation created
• unit tests written

🧪 Testing

Tested in Storybook and created unit tests.

✅ Checklist

• I have updated the project documentation to reflect my changes or determined no changes are needed.

[rajsite]

I'm not sure this is a buggy behavior worth overriding. Did you check from that perspective?

If the goal is just making tests easier it should be a part of the page object. I'm not sure there is a clear benefit in trying to override the details of the native date formatter to get the exact same rendered text across browsers. Is there a specific argument for that?

One argument against could be that many apps are likely to use the same formatter. So our date text will render similarly to most other web apps in Chrome.

[m-akinc]

I don't think it's a bug--just a mostly trivial difference between how each browser formats the date. It seems more targeted to doing the replacement here than in the page object. If I do it in the page object, I either have to do this substitution for all text rendered in cells, or add an esoteric new function to fetch a rendered date from a cell. I don't see any practical downsides to replacing one narrow non-breaking space with a regular space. That was my thought process, at least.

[rajsite]

Seems like the date table column could have it's own page object

[rajsite]

edit: removed, wasn't very productive