More than once in my life, I’ve had to turn in an assignment or send an email at a very inconvenient time.  The sort of time that makes you take a day off or wake up in the middle of the night.  Anyone who’s been in the same position should be happy to hear that Blogger now allows future-dated posts.

Yes, just write your post, click on “post options” and a little fiddling in the “post date and time” field should allow you to schedule publishings weeks in advance.

Here’s how it’ll affect you: forget the whole inconvenient time or loss of sleep thing.  Then, readers of personal blogs won’t have to go without their regular intake of whatever, and readers of business blogs won’t have to wonder what horrible things are going on behind the scenes when a blogger’s really just taken a few days off.

Schedule product release announcements, birthday wishes, or anything else you please.  This should be a time-saver, as it’ll allow people to spend fewer days writing stuff (so long as they create more than one post after finally sitting down).

Of course, other blog platforms have offered this feature for a while, so Blogger doesn’t deserve too much praise for simply catching up.  Still, for people who have stuck by Blogger, the development should be fairly exciting.

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