Technical query
Feb. 13th, 2009 09:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustMy most recent post is a book review, which I wrote in two stages.
I started work on it on Wednesday evening, but didn't have time to finish it, so I saved it as a private (for my eyes only) post. Then last night I completed it, edited the date and saved it, this time as a public post.
My theory was that this would result in it being posted at the time when the completed piece was posted; my theory, however, was wrong. Struck by an awful thought, I checked![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
durham_rambler's f-page, and found my post back in the sequence some time on Wednesday evening. Curses! I suppose LJ feels the need to indulge our silly insistence on being in different time zones, but only to the extent of letting us change the labels...
No, it can't be that, either, because I know you can post-date posts, to keep them at the top of your page (I don't know how, clearly, but I've seen it done).
Of course, none of this would matter if I were writing this journal purely for myself - but it seems that I do care, after all, that my 'friends' should at least have the chance of seeing what I've written.
So, tell me, LJ, what am I doing wrong? Can I use LJ to draft in advance like this, or do I have to compose my text elsewhere, and then cut-and-paste?
I started work on it on Wednesday evening, but didn't have time to finish it, so I saved it as a private (for my eyes only) post. Then last night I completed it, edited the date and saved it, this time as a public post.
My theory was that this would result in it being posted at the time when the completed piece was posted; my theory, however, was wrong. Struck by an awful thought, I checked
durham_rambler's f-page, and found my post back in the sequence some time on Wednesday evening. Curses! I suppose LJ feels the need to indulge our silly insistence on being in different time zones, but only to the extent of letting us change the labels...No, it can't be that, either, because I know you can post-date posts, to keep them at the top of your page (I don't know how, clearly, but I've seen it done).
Of course, none of this would matter if I were writing this journal purely for myself - but it seems that I do care, after all, that my 'friends' should at least have the chance of seeing what I've written.
So, tell me, LJ, what am I doing wrong? Can I use LJ to draft in advance like this, or do I have to compose my text elsewhere, and then cut-and-paste?
