Every post is of necessity date & timestamped. The programmer probably turned the code that translates that into the textstring at top right of each post into a function, and any time he needs a date, he just issues a call on that function. NOT including the date in some places would be more work, not less.
Did someone ask for a wolf?
Redwolf
Yes Virginia, there is a Redwolf! 
But she’s not in Virginia.
slude’s from Tennessee he gets the coasts mixed up
Where I grew up, the nearest coast was in the deodorant soap aisle at the store.
Please tell me you were being ironic when you constructed this sentence?
p.s. izzarina, I think you’re playing fast and loose with the word interesting.
Izzy playing fast and loose 
We can always return back to the old way.
return to yesterday year?
No point, nostalgia is not like it used to be
the passage of time makes the past much more enjoyable
And I’m not even trying!!!
It’s already a function. He just used reader.GetDateTime(index).ToString()
where before it was reader.GetDateTime(index).ToShortDateString()
It could have just assigned a random time. 
no!
Then time would be jumping around,
can’t have that
hard on the nerves, it is
That would be terrible! To assign a random time like that…making us think we actually signed up at a certain time? I don’t want to think about that…too much to bear right now 
it’s okay 
yer middle of the afternoon, relax
Don’t you understand? That’s not the point! Not at all! I’m not exactly sure what the point is, but I know there is one, and we should all be concerned!
::running off to find her tinfoil hat::
well…if you are able to locate a point,
please let us know