Bug 437170

Summary: Display a divider/separator between the date and time for the inline clock
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Podagric <kde.podagric>
Component: Digital Clock widgetAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: m1vri31c, nate, zdaniel.gp
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.21.90   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Other   
See Also: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499989
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In: 6.3.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Podagric 2021-05-15 18:12:54 UTC 
SUMMARY
When both are next to each other, only an empty space separates both.

My suggestion would be something that would allow you to do this: https://i.imgur.com/NVEVy4F.png

There are several other widgets that do this, but for the sake of a system less modified by third parties, I think it is something to be considered as it greatly improves the appearance of the digital clock applet.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.90
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.82.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-05-18 21:11:51 UTC 
Seems reasonable.
Comment 3 m1vri31c 2025-02-17 04:24:38 UTC 
It seems there is now no way to turn off the separator. I have always just used an extra space using the custom date format option, and the separator looks worse and takes up more space than my extra space did.

Also the separator doesn't disappear when "Show date" is no longer selected, if the "Always beside time" option is selected.
Comment 4 m1vri31c 2025-02-17 04:28:34 UTC 
(In reply to m1vri31c from comment #3)
> It seems there is now no way to turn off the separator. I have always just
> used an extra space using the custom date format option, and the separator
> looks worse and takes up more space than my extra space did.
> 
> Also the separator doesn't disappear when "Show date" is no longer selected,
> if the "Always beside time" option is selected.

Bug 499989 addresses this
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-06-17 14:33:51 UTC 
Git commit b71ccfc79e3441c1ea7e077f77fa23b2b130f81d by Nate Graham, on behalf of Owen Ross.
Committed on 17/06/2025 at 14:33.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

applets/digitalclock: Remove hardcoded vertical pipe between date and time

This change was unnecessary; you can already  manually add it via the
`|` character in the custom date option, if you really want this.
Related: bug 499989

M  +5    -25   applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/b71ccfc79e3441c1ea7e077f77fa23b2b130f81d