Q:

publish a new product or a new block on a certain date?

We need to publish a new product with some blocks on the home page on a certain date. can we do that with Magento? Any extension that would help it?
thanks

A:

You have options in product editing to set 

Set Product as New to Date
Set Product as New from Date

and in your block you just need to filter the items by those attributes and decide if you display or not.

