Future dating does not imply scheduling, how to "publish on" a future date?

[Daniel Jalkut]

I could have sworn in the past that setting the date for a post to the future when submitted to Tumblr caused Tumblr to automatically set the post to "Publish on" for that future date. Now that doesn't occur: it just publishes the post immediately, changing the date to the current time.

I looked at the new Tumblr post UI on the web site and it also doesn't seem to offer the "Publish On" option anymore, and attempts to implicitly schedule a post by setting the date to the future cause the same immediate publication at the current time.

Has the whole notion of "publish at a specific time in the future" been removed from Tumblr? If not, how does one go about achieving this for a post written through the web UI, and how should an API client go about achieving the same thing?

Thanks!

Daniel

[Daniel Jalkut]

Well, I feel silly for not noticing this thread, which addresses the "publish on" support from the API:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tumblr-api/TpmjyDMIDsc/iqueeAGllZYJ

It would be really great if, as I believe the API did before, it would interpret a future date on a post to imply "publish on" behavior for the post. This would allow folks who use clients such as mine that lack complete support for queued posts to still make use of the functionality by setting the date accordingly.

Daniel