Problem

You want to make an entry now and have it be published some time in the future.

Solution

Set the entry's Post Status to "Scheduled".

Discussion

Posting to the future is a useful feature for keeping a weblog active while you are offline. The feature allows you to create a post and have it be published at a future point in time.

While in the entry editing screen, set the Entry Status drop down to "Scheduled" and set the Authored On timestamp to the approximate time you want the entry to be published.

This feature requires the setup and periodic execution of an included script (tools/run-periodic-tasks) that checks to see if entries marked "Scheduled" have reached the current time. Typically a task such as this will be handled by a system tool such as cron. Without this facility scheduled posting will not work.

See Setting Up Scheduled Post Services for more information on setting up tools/run-periodic-tasks on your system.