The thing is, I wanted to post-date it. I finished it near the end of last night, but I wanted to Schedule it for 2:30 this (Saturday) morning because I wanted to make sure I had a daily post for today/Saturday as I head off to the Super Bowl. But I forgot, and so it published when I got done with it, which was, like, 15 minutes before midnight. So I had two posts for yesterday, which I didn't plan.
So here's where it gets interesting. Once I realized that the blog post had been posted for the world to see, I tried to take it back. I tried to re-Schedule it for about 2:45 into the future. So I clicked on Edit, clicked on Schedule on the right side of the Blogger screen, and scheduled it. I actually thought it worked, that no one saw me publish it, then take it back for future publishing. But I was foiled. One, some dude (more like a bot from Russia) already looked at it, so retracting it may have been too late to retract it before a "person" saw it. And two, I saw that there wasn't a special "Scheduled" note next to that blog post. It was time-stamped 2:30 a.m., even though by this point it was, like, ten minutes to midnight. And then I Viewed it to see my blog the same way you people see my blog, and that blog post was dated Saturday the 3rd at a time of 2:30 a.m. In other words ... I POSTED INTO THE FUTURE!!!
You can't post into the future, of course. But you shouldn't really time-stamp for a time in the future either, right? So how come I could circumvent that by immediately publishing it, then deciding to publish it for a future date? That seems like a bug of some sort. Either allow me to pull back a post and Schedule it so that people can't see that blog post until the time I specify, or don't allow me to pull a post back at all. At any rate, I now have to make sure I blog post for today. Then again, me mixing up the blog post that was supposed to be for today gave me a reason to blog post today.
You know?
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