bsdinstall OCD/ADHD/anything else that ends with a D observation

[johnblue]

Chapter 2. Installing FreeBSD

Guide about how to install FreeBSD, the minimum hardware requirements and supported architectures, how to create the installation media, etc

docs.freebsd.org

After confirming the "Time Zone" the next screen is "Select Date":

Even though the title of the windows says "Time & Date" what is presented is selection of the date first which is functionally out of the advertised sequence.

Additionally, for continuity sake, it does make sense to present adjustment of the time and then the date. After all, we just finished selecting a time zone in the previous screen, right?

 

[Phishfry]

I really think bsdinstall is getting carried away. Setting timezone is OK but I never use this screen for date time. ntpdate does that all too well.
Part of setting up a machine.
The Firmware Installation and downloading packages for firmware is too much for my taste.. I enjoy the ncurses experience but....

 

[Kai Burghardt]

[…] Even though the title of the windows says "Time & Date" what is presented is selection of the date first which is functionally out of the advertised sequence. […]

That’s what’s bothering you‽ I would’ve complained about the slashes. Big‑Endian date format usually uses a dash (e. g. ISO 8601, RFC 3339) or period (e. g. Chinese style) as separator, but that’s harder to achieve than changing some strings in usr.sbin/bsdinstall/scripts/time. As far as I can tell bsddialog(1) is not internationalized and the available ‑‑datebox‑format are d/m/y, m/d/y and y/m/d – all with slashes. ​

 

[Espionage724]

Even though the title of the windows says "Time & Date" what is presented is selection of the date first which is functionally out of the advertised sequence.

I was thinking there's something about "Time" being before the other option; Windows has "Time and Language" on Modern UI control panel, and the first pane presented is "Date & time". Classic control panel has "Date and Time". Maybe the setting panes themselves present Date before Time as a standard, but on higher-level general panes "Time" looks better for alphabetical?

But I think for NTP time the Date has to be correct, so if the option after date allows for NTP setting of time that seems ok.

 

[johnblue]

.. I enjoy the ncurses experience but....

100% agree.