Future Post with Companion Future Ping??

Future Post with Companion Future Ping??
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I’m in the process of testing/trying various blogware, using a LAMP WinXP setup as the testing bed. The one feature about which I’m very interested = scheduling future posts. While trying Expression Machine, I discovered that while one can arrange a future post, and that post will not appear until the scheduled date/time, the pings are sent out immediately– that is, when the posts are actually created. PHP complications on this matter were explained to me, but it makes no logical sense to me to have scheduled posts capability without companion scheduled pings. So, with that as background: researching various posts here confirms the availability of the future posts feature. My questions: does that include an associated scheduled ping facility, or is there a plug-in/hack which will accomplish the same thing?

Just nitpicking… the L in LAMP stands for Linux. So if you are running Apache, MySQL and PHP on a WinXP machine, at best you have an AMP (or maybe a WAMP) setup.

I stand properly corrected. Although, in my defense, L(osingmy mind) Apache MySQL and PHP would also be right on the money!

Currently WP has the same problem, though this may be fixed in the future.

Update: Technorati indexed a “post-dated” post as if I wrote it the day of the time stamp. I created the post a couple of days ago, but it appeared at 6:04 this morning, because I changed the timestamp to today. (That’s 14 hours ago, not 1o hours and 38 minutes, but I’m sure it’s a timing problem that I don’t understand). Anyway, my post looks fresh to < a href=”https://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=homecomers.org”>Technorati, even though it was in suspended animation for three days.
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