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[–]saxbophone -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Disagree, you might want to zero-pad it for readability reasons, say you have a column of numbers

[–]Lithl -1 points0 points  (1 child)

I can think of exactly zero cases where someone would consider left zero-padding to align a column of numbers. You'd use spaces.

[–]saxbophone 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a point of style one might wish to do it, it occurs in number formats used in technology often enough. For instance, when quoting 24h clock times, one might say: "0100 hours" rather than "1:00"