[bhenness]

The following reg hack does work, but only for certain dates (short ones to be precise);

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Today
AutoSingleLineDatePlugin = 1

Problems arise because the Today Date Plugin formats the date using your Long Date in Regional settings, which has limited options. For US region, the Long Date is dddd, MMMM dd, YYYY. For Nov 8 this will NOT fit on one line since it formats to "Saturday, November 08, 2008" - regardless of the fact that the reg hack is trying to put the date on a single line. Note that a date in May will always fit on one line.

To get it to work you need to apply 2 reg hacks;

1. the one listed above and;
2. HKLM\nls\overrides\SLDate (you need to do it here since Regional Settings does not provide many options)

Change the SLDate format to something that will fit on one line for all dates. For example I set mine to "dddd, MMMM, d". This yields "Sunday, November 9" which fits nicely.

TIP: You can use Excel to view different custom date formats to find one that you like.