Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Windows Live Writer Publish Date Weirdness...
Posted on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:40:06 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)  Comments [0] | 
Categories: Blogging

Windows Live Writer is a pretty good off-line blog editor in most ways, but one thing that just does not make sense to me is the setting of the publish date.

I can understand that you may want to publish something at a future date, and that's great - but it seems like there is something amiss in it's defaults.

When you start a post, the publish date is not set...

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If I use the pull down to expose the calendar to set the date...

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it does not seem to re-set the TIME - note 7:15pm is still set. Ok - so what - the time is off by a few hours. The issue comes in RSS and aggregation, where the time stamps will control the order in which posts appear. So, my post on Visual Studio Memory Use (posted about 10 minutes before this one) may actually appear to be pinned to the top of aggregators like PlanetGeospatial and ArcExperts until the post date & time pass.

Anyhow - if you are using WLW, this is something you may want to be aware of.

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