I've been waiting for this...

Blogger has just launched a feature allowing you to delay the publishing of a post to a specific date and time in the future, read the full details here.
This is a feature that I have been waiting for since seeing it on a Wordpress blog. Up until now, blogspot users could choose a future date for a post, but regardless of date, once the post was published it was instantly visible. I am in the habit as I assume other bloggers are, of saving up posts in draft form and then posting them at a convenient point. With the new feature, once you have written a post, you can decide the date and time that it will be published, schedule it and leave it to publish itself.
One word of warning though, the publishing time does not match with the time you have chosen in your settings, it seems to default to CET or something similar... The system works as you might expect, you edit the time of the post in 'post options', choose your time and select 'publish post', the post now appears as 'scheduled' in the edit posts screen, and will become visible at the time selected.
Blogger have also allowed you to make visible a future-dated post. In order to do this, you would publish your post normally with the current time, and then edit the post and amend the date after it has been published. They say that if you have post-dated posts already showing on your blog, then they will remain.
This is a real bonus for when you take a natural break from blogging, but want your blog to remain regularly updated with fresh material to keep your readership interested.