#### MarsEdit Help | Solutions By Topic | Q&A

# Editing the date of a post

By default, MarsEdit does not set an explicit date on posts that it publishes to your blog. Typically the blogging system will infer the current date and time as the published date for any new post.

Most blog systems allow you to change the published date of a post. The results of doing so vary from system to system, and may have a different effect depending on whether you alter the date before or after it is first published. If you’re unsure about date support on your blog system, check with the system documentation or experiment with a test post.

To change the date of a published post on your blog, open the post with MarsEdit and choose Post > Edit Date…. When you send the edited post to the server, the date you choose will be set on the published post.

### Future Posting

Many blog systems offer special support for posts with a future date. On these systems, a future date indicates that the post is scheduled for publication, and is not yet publicly visible. The following blog systems do support some form of future posting:

Check with your blog system documentation to see if this behavior is supported, or experiment by publishing a test post to confirm the desired functionality.

For supported blogs, just edit the date of a new post in MarsEdit before sending to the blog server. It will appear in your list of published posts, but should not be visible on the web until the specified date has arrived. You can confirm the "Scheduled" status by viewing the post in your blog system’s online administration panel.