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When i was "planning" an lcars design i had in mind to have a stardate display Maybe that would be cool to have in your design now so i can stop thinking about?
I failed to calculate/assign the month numbers correctly back then, tho it looked quite easy...
https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Stardates

More important, on the wallpaper and ui elements mix up.
Best practice in Asteroids UI (currently) is to supply the graphical elements independent from the wallpaper, as transparent image. Then integrate it like you already did but commented out in your linked source code.

The black background is a much discussed topic and will not be available by stock means (afaics).
For having pure black your are right in providing it as custom selectable wallpaper with your watchface.

Main reasoning for separating graphical elements and background:
1. by not providing the ui elements in the watchface, it will look "naked" in the watchface selection list even if the current wallpaper is active.
2. two steps are necessary to have the watchface look like intended (select watchface, then select wallpaper)
3. users are forced into full black background where it would be possible to offer them choice to have the ui elements on a differnt wallpaper like the stock starry one or other fitting dark images.

For the different designs, i guess it would be good to have two separate qmls. They then show up neatly side by side in the watchface selection list.
Or be the first one to employ touch detection on the watchface and switch the design within one qml by e.g. doubletap?

If you are short on time i would be very happy to provide you with the sliced images and PR them into your repo somewhen next week.

And again, absolutely frikkin' great that you are looking into Asteroid. I hope you find some things you like about it.
 

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