Chat: inconsistent time format for consecutive messages from the same user

When a single user sends multiple consecutive messages in a Discourse Chat channel, the time format displayed is inconsistent.

The timestamp next to the username on the first message uses the 24-hour format, while the timestamp on the left of subsequent messages uses the 12-hour format.

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Confirmed this feels like a UX issue, not sure what we can easily do here:

We have one format for “shorter” times and another one for longer time. In the gutter we have no room for the long format.

Room? I think that system should use 24 or 12 hour time no matter if there is space to handle short or long form. Not mixing both 12 and 24.

Or do I, again, misunderstanding the issue here?