feat(blog): filter posts by status and support scheduled publishing

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What

A blog post can now be merged to production ahead of time and go live on its own: the record carries status: "scheduled" plus a scheduledDatetime, and the loaders decide at read time whether its instant has arrived. No cron, no worker, no second commit — crossing the instant is the publication event, and it takes effect on the first request that evaluates it after the fact.

⚠️ This changes live behaviour — read before deploying

A post with status: "scheduled" and a scheduledDatetime still in the future disappears from listings, related posts and search until that instant passes, and its page is served noindex in the meantime. This is the intended correction, not a side effect.

Two things that soften this relative to how it was originally scoped:

• Drafts were already hidden. feat(blog): add draft/published lifecycle to blog posts #1658 introduced the status allowlist, so this PR does not newly hide anything that is draft/archived/generating/awaiting_review — those left listings then. Only the scheduled case is new.
• Appearance is subject to site cache TTL. A scheduled post shows up on the first uncached request after its instant, not at the instant itself. Deliberately out of scope — no cache or revalidation logic was touched.

How

• blog/utils/date.ts (new) — dateToTime moved out of handlePosts.ts and exported, plus a new strict scheduledTime. The scheduling comparison needs the same UTC pinning as date sorting: without it an offset-less datetime parses as server-local time, and the same record would go live at different moments depending on which machine served the request. The module is separate because the predicate consuming it is in types.ts, which cannot import core/handlePosts.ts without a cycle.
• blog/types.ts — "scheduled" added to the existing PostStatus union; new optional scheduledDatetime (@format datetime), kept deliberately separate from date, which stays the editorial date shown and sorted on. New isLivePost(post, now = Date.now()) composes on top of isPublishedStatus and stays an allowlist, so any status added later still fails closed on an app version that predates it.
• blog/core/handlePosts.ts — filterRoutablePosts now uses isLivePost. Signature unchanged: now defaults internally, so nothing has to be threaded through filterPosts/handlePosts.
• blog/loaders/BlogPostPage.ts, BlogPostItem.ts — noIndexing keys off isLivePost, so a scheduled post becomes indexable on its own once its instant passes, with no rewrite or redeploy.

The detail-page contract from #1658 is unchanged: a post that is not live is still served, because that page is the Studio "See preview", and is forced noindex until it is. That is why this PR needs no ?__draft bypass and no change to getRecordsByPath — both would only have existed to undo a 404 this design never introduces.

Why the schedule parse is strict (second commit)

Date is lenient in two ways that both put a post live at the wrong moment, so scheduledTime matches an anchored ISO pattern and range-checks the fields before Date ever sees them, returning null for anything else:

• Non-ISO strings parse in server-local time. "Sep 1 2026" is accepted by Date and resolves to a different instant on every machine, silently defeating the UTC pinning this module exists to guarantee. "0" is the worst case — it resolves to the year 2000, i.e. to "already live".
• Calendar overflow rolls forward instead of failing. A typo'd "2026-02-31" would publish on March 3rd.

Deliberate boundaries on that strictness:

• dateToTime keeps its lenient 0-on-failure contract for the sort comparator, which wants a total order and no NaN. The sort path is untouched — publishing needs a stricter parse than sorting does, because a misread instant here doesn't reorder a list, it changes what is on the live site.
• Returning null rather than 0 makes the Unix epoch a representable instant instead of being indistinguishable from a parse failure. Nobody schedules 1970 on purpose, but the distinction is what proves the rejection keys off an unreadable value rather than off a falsy timestamp.
• A bare YYYY-MM-DD is still honoured as midnight UTC: unlike the loose forms it is unambiguous ISO, and rejecting it would strand a post forever over a missing time.
• scheduledDatetime is inert unless status === "scheduled", so a post flipped back to published with a stale schedule field stays published.

Tests

29 tests pass, and the suite passes under TZ=UTC, America/Sao_Paulo, Pacific/Kiritimati and Asia/Kathmandu.

blog/tests/handlePosts.test.ts covers: no status, published, draft, scheduled past (visible), scheduled future (hidden), no datetime (hidden), unparseable (hidden), loose strings incl. "0" (hidden), calendar overflow incl. a real leap day (hidden / honoured), out-of-range time and offset (hidden), the Unix epoch (honoured), a bare date (honoured), unknown statuses (hidden), the inert-field case, and UTC pinning. The timezone test is a real discriminator, not decoration — its fixture parses as future without the pinning under UTC-3, so it fails if the pinning regresses.

blog/tests/blogPostDetail.test.ts adds the detail-page cases: future-scheduled is served noindex, past-scheduled is indexable, broken instant stays noindex.

blog/tests/getCategories.test.ts (new) proves categories are never filtered, including ones carrying a stray status/scheduledDatetime. Note this is a guard by construction — categories bypass handlePosts entirely.

manifest.gen.ts needed no regeneration: utils/ and tests/ are not block dirs, and the manifest references neither.

Version

deno.json is untouched — bumps land as separate Update version to X commits from the release job. A feat release from 0.161.1 gives 0.162.0, which is the floor Studio should gate the scheduling UI on. Worth confirming against the actual tag once the job runs.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds scheduled post support with timezone-aware date parsing. Routing and SEO indexing now use live-status evaluation. Tests cover future, past, invalid, missing, and timezone-less schedule values.

Changes

Scheduled post visibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Status and date evaluation blog/types.ts, blog/utils/date.ts	BlogPost supports scheduledDatetime, and PostStatus supports "scheduled". isLivePost evaluates scheduled publication times. dateToTime handles UTC, explicit timezones, and invalid dates.
Routing and SEO indexing blog/core/handlePosts.ts, blog/loaders/BlogPostItem.ts, blog/loaders/BlogPostPage.ts	Routing excludes non-live posts. Both loaders serve non-live posts with seo.noIndexing enabled and allow indexing after the scheduled time.
Scheduled visibility validation blog/tests/handlePosts.test.ts, blog/tests/blogPostDetail.test.ts, blog/tests/getCategories.test.ts	Tests cover scheduled visibility, invalid and missing dates, timezone handling, loader indexing, and category status behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 59998

Malformed scheduledDatetime values can cause posts to become visible at unintended times, while a valid Unix-epoch schedule is incorrectly hidden. The date validation should be corrected before merging to avoid incorrect publication behavior.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant BlogPostItem
  participant BlogPostPageLoader
  participant isLivePost
  participant dateToTime
  BlogPostItem->>isLivePost: Evaluate post status
  BlogPostPageLoader->>isLivePost: Evaluate post status
  isLivePost->>dateToTime: Parse scheduledDatetime
  dateToTime-->>isLivePost: Return publication timestamp
  isLivePost-->>BlogPostItem: Return live status
  isLivePost-->>BlogPostPageLoader: Return live status

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In `@blog/utils/date.ts`:
- Around line 22-27: Update dateToTime to strictly validate date inputs, reject
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