No, it's something different. The FAQ actually says that "backdate" prevents things from showing up in aggregators like the Friends page. Trevor's comment, below, talks about it.
Er, that's the point of backdated journal entries. You can always make a new entry with any date you want, and it'll show up in the chronologic order it hit the LJ databases. Backdating entries is for when you have 20 posts from your vacation and don't want to overwhelm your friends, so you just make one post saying "Go look at my journal for vacation posts. They are super beatings."
How I expect things to work: Entries show up in your archives at whatever time you hit the "submit" button, unless you click "backdate", which makes them show up at the time you specified. Entries show up on Friends pages according to the same chronology.
How it actually works: Entries show up in your archives at whatever dates you give them. Entries show up in aggregators (friends page) in chronological order according to when the server first saw them. Backdating prevents them from showing up in aggregators at all.
So I certainly see why they have the "don't spam my friends pages with my vacation updates", but calling it "backdating" confuses me, and what I *really* want is the option to specify both the archive date and syndication date.
I presume the capability is missing for some reason related to how RSS works, and I'm mostly just whinging.
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Date: 2004-12-06 10:47 am (UTC)How I expect things to work: Entries show up in your archives at whatever time you hit the "submit" button, unless you click "backdate", which makes them show up at the time you specified. Entries show up on Friends pages according to the same chronology.
How it actually works: Entries show up in your archives at whatever dates you give them. Entries show up in aggregators (friends page) in chronological order according to when the server first saw them. Backdating prevents them from showing up in aggregators at all.
So I certainly see why they have the "don't spam my friends pages with my vacation updates", but calling it "backdating" confuses me, and what I *really* want is the option to specify both the archive date and syndication date.
I presume the capability is missing for some reason related to how RSS works, and I'm mostly just whinging.