That worked. I'll admit I don't know HOW that structure worked but it seems to be fine. In the meantime I gave up and decided to put my timestamp first with an additional header stating 'TIME' so that it evened out.
Now I'm working on all the variables necessary to make this VI work in the big picture for what I'm doing. It's going to end up in the 'write to file' case structure in this spaghetti'd mess (which has gotten much uglier since I screen cap'ed it...see attachment). 🙂
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Still confused after 8 years.