Thoughts on improving Date Display on Clock Screen

[tech-nickel]

Hey there 👋

I have a small remark regarding the Clock Screen’s date format options.
Currently, the watch face writes out “DATE,” which feels somewhat redundant since it’s obvious we’re looking at a date.

My suggestion:
Instead of showing “DATE,” it might be cleaner and more intuitive to simply display the date itself e.g.:
• Line 1: Month + Day
• (Optional) Line 2 (below): Weekday

Like in this example:

This could make the watch face more minimal, reduce clutter, and focus on the actual useful information.

What do you think?

Cheers,
Nicola

[oliverrees]

Hi! This is a great suggestion and think could be applied across a number of the slots a lot of the descriptions are completely redundant. Will action!

[tech-nickel]

Indeed, I was not looking at the rest of the field options yet.

And is there a plan to contribute directly to the project repository? I’d be happy to jump in and contribute myself if that’s useful instead of bothering you with small remarks which can be easily implemented over a merge request.

Cheers,
Nicola

[garrettkaste]

Joined to add a similar comment. Would love the option to turn off the labels like TEMP and DATE on the slot items. Also, the date scrolls across the screen, and on a minimalist analog clock its quite distracting. Awesome gadget overall!

[oliverrees]

Yes! Apologies this is on the roadmap but have been deep in the flight detection logic and some harware issues. Will be addressing this next 👍

[oliverrees]

This should be much improved now. Let me know what you think!

[tech-nickel]

Yes indeed! Exactly what I was thinking.

One last thing to add here is the point of the scrolling text when the frame exceeds e.g. the date has two digits like @garrettkaste already mentioned.