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

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-inconsistent-time-format-for-consecutive-messages-from-the-same-user/369516
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [June 10, 2025, 6:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-inconsistent-time-format-for-consecutive-messages-from-the-same-user/369516 "2025-06-10T06:30:30Z")
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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chat-inconsistent-time-format-for-consecutive-messages-from-the-same-user/369516/2 "2025-06-12T04:24:46Z")

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

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/9/3/1930c62867bba3fcf91c1b62c0fa4260bc6fc101.png)

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

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