Comment # 1 on bug 964664 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Hannes K�hnemund from comment #0)
> Why is the date
> placement not configurable (it seems the system has two ways to handle it)?

The placement is determined by the height of the widget (i.e. the height of the
panel where it is located) and the font size (I think).

That's how the corresponding KDE developers designed it.