Drastic - 2:16 am on Feb 6, 2001 (gmt 0)

Thanks guys, playing around some more with colspan/rowspan did it. I was already trying to make it work this way but had too many instances of them not jiving with each other. The page I am working with is a bit more complex than the simplified-for-posting-clarity example I used above, but you pointed me in the right direction.