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Google bought Blogger 5 years ago in February 2003, prior to which time, Blogger had a facility to schedule posts that would be published in the future. Shortly after the Google acquisition, that feature disappeared and, being one that I’d previously made use of, I’d been waiting for it to be restored ever since.
It was one of the reasons why I decided I had to move to Wordpress.
So, what do I read today? That finally - five years too late in my humble opinion - Google gets around to adding a New feature: Scheduled Posts, only currently accessible via the beta(ish) http://draft.blogger.com
The introduction of this feature will not tempt me as there are still all the other problems with updating blogs via FTP and, they do say that, “In some testing we’ve found that schedule posting is not working for some FTP blogs.”
Oh, I would have had one of those. Murphy will have seen to it! 
The majority of Blogspot users who have arrived after Google and who wont know that this feature used to exist - the Blogger in Draft blog, curiously (deliberately), makes no mention of this and talks about the feature as if it were completely brand spanking new - will be overjoyed with their new toy.
Can you believe they’ve done this in the very same week as I finally get around to moving to Wordpress? Yes, I know it took me almost as long, but hell, there’s only one of me! Honestly, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Maybe they were so sad to lose my blogs, they thought they had better finish up and restore the feature before there was a mass exodus. Maybe not too!
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so you are moving onto wordpress are you?
I’ve only used the free version which is not all that versatile but does have good points.
I’ve not yet noticed the new introduction from blogger - I’ve always found the ability to change the date settings a plus in some respects. Ah well, we’ll see how it goes.
Yes, because I already hosted the Blogger driven blogs at my own hosting, installing Wordpress.org (still free) was the only sensible option.
But I agree that hosted Blogger is more versatile than hosted Wordpress.com and, using Blogspot, you will not have suffered all the problems of slowness and things that don’t work for me via FTP.
You wont see this feature in Blogger, unless you login via http://draft.blogger.com
… but once you do, you can set up posts for future dates and holidays and won’t need a button pusher while you’re away. You can still change date settings and you can still save drafts without publishing.