A person who goes to court without a lawyer meets time as a question to be settled early. This short study asks how a public record written for such a person frames a decision about time: who decides, by when, and what would reopen the matter. It reads fourteen records from PRO SE, a studio of the RISCON family that publishes questions for self-represented litigants: every question in its Timing section whose English wording names a limitation period. PRO SE marks every record synthetic and publishes its library as general information, not legal advice; none is a real case. Each says what material is examined, gives two readings, ends in a question where a judgment would stand, and names a condition for looking at the matter again.
The study finds that the records frame a decision about time without stating any time. No English record in the library of 483 questions contains a digit, and of the fourteen only one names who decides. What the records settle instead is the order of inquiry: which starting point, which kind of period, which event has to be established first. Read beside work on access to justice, legal consciousness, the line between legal information and legal advice, and decision aids, the form shows one way of staying on the information side of that line, and what it leaves to the reader: the dates, the facts and the person who decides. The contribution concerns the form of the records, not the law.