I'm on PS5, and unless I'm unaware of something, it shouldn't take a millennia to set time of day/year in explore mode. Holding down the d-pad/pushing L3 left or right forever isn't fun. One click right or left should bring the time up an hour i.e. 3:00 to 4:00 right away, likewise Week 1 June to Week 2 June. Not holding forever and ever. (also, side note, lighting of certain times looks wrong, like it being much too light out from 22:00 to 1:00).
Plus one this. Not controller friendly at all. Don't know why they could not just port that from TSW.
Plus two. The date option is remarkably clunky, never seen anything like it. I don't know what each of the increments are, there are more than 7 per week, so it isn't days.
I joined the forum just to express my Thanks! I also have this issue on PS5 and suspected it was a bug, but I assumed I would need to wait for the next update to resolve it. I thought it was impossible to change any time of months on this system, but it actually works by holding down the D-pad button, which indeed takes an eternity. Hopefully, it gets fixed in the future.