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A way to change the date and time format in the GUI (Linux) #2464

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@PlutonianPassenger

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I remember every time I have used Celestia on Windows, the date was written like
2026 Feb 11 09:45:10
I switched to Linux and recently redownloaded Celestia on Linux only for the date to be written like:

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Now when I accelerate time, I get dizzy trying to follow the date because the line length changes with each weekday.

Describe the solution you'd like
A simple button toggle to hide the weekday, rewrite the date in the above format (YYYY-MM-DD-HH-SS).

Describe alternatives you've considered
I have spent a long time looking for how to fix this both in the simulator files and online. There doesn't seem to be an easy way.

The closest thing I found was this third-party patch from 2008 but the website hosting it is not active and it wasn't saved on Archive.
https://sourceforge.net/p/celestia/mailman/message/18603545/

Additional context
see above screenshot

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