Different message board views

At least 95% of the time I visit the message boards this is how the salutation appears: [ul]
Welcome back jcgmoi. You last visited: 04-22-2001 07:26 PM.
The time now is 11:09 PM. View new posts
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This is convenient for my screen set-up, since the tab for GQ is nicely positioned at the bottom of the screen.

On rare occasions however I see this:[ul]
Welcome back jcgmoi. You last visited: 04-22-2001
07:26 PM.
The time now is 10:48 PM. View new posts [/ul]
Now the GQ tab is partially obscured by the bar on my screen. Not a big problem since I learned how to use the roll-keys a long time ago, but the question remains, why is this happening? Anyone else getting the time wrapped?

Well, I think the reason is the length of the text “MM-DD-YYYY HR:MN A/PM”. In most cases, it fits your screen, and in some cases (I dunno. 08-08-2001 08:38 PM? Buncha broad characters, I suppose) it’s just a bit too wide, and the time tag appears on a second line. I suppose the time tag is a coded entity that won’t break up, so it moves in its entirety.

Coldfire, what you say is reasonable, but it doesn’t fit the facts. The examples I gave are cut-and-pasted from last night. At 10:48 line 1 wraps. At 11:09 I hit refresh and it doesn’t wrap. The text of line 1 is the same in each case.

I give up.

Your computer is obviously broken. Smash it with a sledgehammer. NOW.

Anyone else wanna give it a go?

I think I’ll pass on the sledgehammer solution for now.

I’ll post again the next time this occurs.

Coldfire or any other interested party:

Today I saw this salutation:

Welcome back jcgmoi. You last visited: 04-28-2001 01:18
PM.
The time now is 02:17 PM. View new posts

Note the wrapped “PM.”

Is it possible SD software is using a parsing algorithm that goes moderately whackadoo periodically?

Or should I reconsider the sledgehammer solution?