diff --git a/src/text.cpp b/src/text.cpp
index 7c8ba083f..c5e141e45 100644
--- a/src/text.cpp
+++ b/src/text.cpp
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include <strings.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <Context.h>
+#include <math.h>
 #include <util.h>
 #include <text.h>
 #include <utf8.h>
@@ -857,6 +858,15 @@ const std::string format (float value, int width, int precision)
   std::stringstream s;
   s.width (width);
   s.precision (precision);
+  if (0 < value && value < 1)
+  {
+    // For value close to zero, width - 2 (2 accounts for the first zero and
+    // the dot) is the number of digits after zero that are significant
+    double factor = 1;
+    for (int i = 2; i < width; i++)
+      factor *= 10;
+    value = roundf (value * factor) / factor;
+  }
   s << value;
   return s.str ();
 }
@@ -867,6 +877,15 @@ const std::string format (double value, int width, int precision)
   std::stringstream s;
   s.width (width);
   s.precision (precision);
+  if (0 < value && value < 1)
+  {
+    // For value close to zero, width - 2 (2 accounts for the first zero and
+    // the dot) is the number of digits after zero that are significant
+    double factor = 1;
+    for (int i = 2; i < width; i++)
+      factor *= 10;
+    value = round (value * factor) / factor;
+  }
   s << value;
   return s.str ();
 }
diff --git a/test/urgency.t b/test/urgency.t
index 733817a3a..05061060a 100755
--- a/test/urgency.t
+++ b/test/urgency.t
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use Test::More tests => 48;
+use Test::More tests => 49;
 
 # Create the rc file.
 if (open my $fh, '>', 'urgency.rc')
@@ -310,6 +310,11 @@ qx {../src/task rc:urgency.rc add 12b scheduled:yesterday 2>&1};
 $output = qx{../src/task rc:urgency.rc 45 _urgency 2>&1};
 like ($output, qr/urgency 5$/ms, 'scheduled past = 5');
 
+# urgency values between 0 and 1
+qx {../src/task rc:urgency.rc add 13 pri:H 2>&1};
+$output = qx{../src/task rc:urgency.rc rc.urgency.priority.coefficient:0.01234 46 info 2>&1};
+like ($output, qr/Urgency     0.01$/ms, 'near-zero urgency is truncated');
+
 # Cleanup.
 unlink qw(pending.data completed.data undo.data backlog.data synch.key urgency.rc);
 ok (! -r 'pending.data'   &&