and i think you must moved </a> before [syntaxhighlighter brush=plain,first-line=1,highlight=0,collapse=false,html-script=false]".strftime('%d.%m.%Y', $data['news_datestamp']+($settings['timeoffset']*3600))."[/syntaxhighlighter]
Ya I Agree with you for the point of adding Locale to in and by words. B)
But, the thing you said to move </a> before that datestamp will not affect that much according to me. Its just also linking the Topic Title with Date also, nothing else !!! :(