Thread:Mathmagician/@comment-188432-20120827220853/@comment-188432-20120828122220

It's not a tiny change, man. The span tag, which was and is the thing causing the RTE to abort, is still on every single page where I've signed. Of course you're forcing me to change the pages on my home wiki, at the very least, because I'm not going to have a signature that looks like this:   23:02: Sat 25 Aug 2012

You can't fix this problem without changing the Special:Preferences line, because the span tag around the time stamp template is an un-templated part of the SpecPref line. There's no way to correct this problem so that the signatures currently in place will look right. You have to go back and remove the  bit by hand (or bot).