Introduce External API for System Status and Date Timestamps

[chvvkumar]

📋 Overview

This pull request introduces a new external REST API for system status and client information, significantly expanding the system's monitoring capabilities. It also standardizes timestamp formats across the application to consistently include full date information. Additionally, the documentation has been restructured to provide comprehensive details for the new API and improve overall organization.

🔄 Changes by Category

• Features:
  • Added new external API routes for retrieving system status and client information.
  • Enhanced system timestamps to consistently include date information.
  • Updated labels.txt, likely related to system status information.
• Documentation:
  • Created docs/EXTERNAL_API.md with detailed descriptions and usage examples for the new external REST API.
  • Refactored documentation structure by moving the ASCOM Alpaca SafetyMonitor guide to docs/ALPACA_README.md.
  • Updated the main readme.md to reflect changes in documentation structure and references.

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