Why is the time something is posted a link and what does it link too?

Each individual post is a separate record that is combined with other posts and the other elements to make up the page you are looking at. The time link is a permanent link to the actual record of that post in the archives. If you click on the time link you will get a page with that post at the top. This would be great if that post were the only thing on the page. It would make it easy to print out just that post without all the other ones. I'm looking into making that happen but until I understand more than I do now I can't say when or if it will happen. It is somewhat useful because it shows the month of archives that post is in which is smaller than the main page and would waste less paper if you printed it out. However there is one useful thing the link can be used for now. You can right click on it and choose copy URL and then email that to someone you want to see that particular post.

Not to bore you but...

The two second post. When I post something to the site it takes less than two seconds to show up and be available for you to read. I can also post from any location that has internet access. This is a big plus when it comes time to getting information to you in a hurry. What happens in that two seconds is interesting. Using a browser I log on to my account at Blogger. I type in or paste my post and click on the 'Post and Publish' button. Blogger takes the new post and combines it with all the other posts and using my template builds the web page. Blogger also creates an archive page with the new post added. These are sent to my web site via FTP and replaces the current web pages with the new ones. All this happens in that two seconds. Actually it's probably less than that but two seconds is fast enough. Blogger is also in the process of upgrading their system software and I think that was part on my problem getting the archive function working. I'm going to wait until they finish their transition before I make any other changes.