So much for _that_ idea

[bewareofgeek]

OK, advancing the date doesn't delay posting.  Useful to know, LJ.

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[chattycatsmeow.livejournal.com]

I know people who use vastly post dated entries to keep certain information at the top of their journal.

Also- something I found out the hard way:

If you make a post, but keep it private, then later change the date and make it public, that post *will* show up in the recent entries according to the most recent date. However, if someone is in the post right before it and hits "next" or is in the post right after it and hits "Previous", that post will not show up. It is in the queue based on the original day.

Plus, that post, when made public and redated, will NOT show up on your friend's flist of recent posts. It's as though everything about that post is tied to the original date.

To see what I mean about the no next or previous thing, go to my recent entries, look for the post dated 12-13-08 12:01 a.m. titled "FIC Racing Up The Learning Curve". Click into the post on either side of that, then use next or previous and see what happens.

For me, all this happened because the unveiling date for a ficathon story was a day that I was going to be out of town with friends so I did all the loading and posting beforehand, hid the story until the first minute of the unveiling day, then all I had to do was re-date and make public. AAAannnd the story didn't show except in the direct link I had placed at the ficathon community.

[jpsorrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I experimented with this as well. It posts immediately, but I think it puts the post first until the date has passed, keeping all of the posts in "chronological" order.