The post composer has a clock icon on desktop and in the app. Pick a date and time and LinkedIn publishes the post for you.
1. Click Start a post
2. Write the post
3. Click the clock icon
4. Pick the date and time
5. Click Next, then Schedule
Profile posts can be scheduled from 10 minutes to 3 months ahead. Events and job posts can't be scheduled.
LinkedIn converts the time to UTC using your device's time zone. A laptop set to another city posts at that city's hour.
Page posts start one hour out. No events, polls, reshares, jobs, service posts or posts with multiple photos.
Scheduling tools keep your post on their servers and call LinkedIn's API at the set time. Those posts don't appear in LinkedIn's own queue.
The Posts API accepts only lifecycleState PUBLISHED on create. No publish-at field: the post goes live when the call succeeds.
LinkedIn issues access tokens with a 60-day lifespan. A post scheduled past that date fails if nobody reconnects the account.
The guide compares native, tools and API side by side, shows the Posts API call and ends with a checklist for a week of posts.
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