LinkedIn Post Date Extractor

Find any LinkedIn post date, to the second. Free, no signup.

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How to find a LinkedIn post date in 3 steps

About ten seconds, with no login.

1. Copy the link to the post

Click or tap the three dots on the post, then Copy link to post. For a comment, use the comment's own menu.

2. Paste it above and press Get post date

Any link with the post's 19-digit number works. Pasting into the empty box runs it at once.

3. Read the date and copy it

You get the time in your zone and in UTC, an ISO timestamp and the post's age, each with a copy button.

Posted

Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 10:17 AM

6 days ago · New York time

UTCThu, Sep 24, 2026, 2:17 PMISO 86012026-09-24T14:17:34.848Z

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Why doesn't LinkedIn show the exact date of a post?

Because the feed shows a post's age, not its time, and the age gets rounder as the post gets older.

Every post carries a relative stamp: 5m, 3h, 2d, 1w, 3mo, 1yr. "1w" covers seven to thirteen days, and "3mo" a whole quarter. Hovering shows nothing, and no setting turns it into a date.

The app, search results and notifications all use the same rounded stamp, so there's no other place on LinkedIn to look.

How a LinkedIn post ID encodes its timestamp

The first 41 bits of every post ID are the moment it was created, in milliseconds.

Step	What happens	Example
1. Find the ID	The 19-digit number after activity-, ugcPost- or share-, or after urn:li:activity:	7110000000000000000
2. Keep the first 41 bits	Shift the number 22 bits right	1695156097412
3. Read it as a time	Milliseconds since January 1, 1970, UTC	September 19, 2023, 20:41:37 UTC
4. Convert to your zone	Your browser knows your time zone	4:41:37 PM in New York

It's a variant of the snowflake ID that large platforms use, so thousands of servers can mint unique IDs without checking with each other. The extractor runs these four steps in your browser, with BigInt so none of the 19 digits is lost.

Prefer to check by hand? Open your browser's console and run new Date(Number(BigInt("ID") >> 22n)), with the 19 digits in place of ID.

The result is exact, not an estimate. A published example, activity 7138259296076619777, decodes to December 6, 2023 at 20:13:58 UTC, the time its author reports.

The same arithmetic on the post in the steps above: the ID alone gives the date, so the post is never opened.

Get the LinkedIn post timestamp in six formats

Each value has its own copy button, ready for a report, a spreadsheet or a script.

Your time: Date and time; In your browser's time zone
UTC: Date and time; The same moment, zone-free
ISO 8601: Timestamp; For a spreadsheet or a script
Age: Days ago; How fresh the post is
Unix time: Milliseconds; Since January 1, 1970
ID: 19 digits; The number the date comes from

A comment link gives you the set twice, once for the post and once for the comment. A reply link adds a third.

Which LinkedIn links can you date?

Any link that carries the post's 19-digit number. It works as a LinkedIn date extractor for posts, comments and reposts.

Which LinkedIn links can you date?
What you paste	Works?	What to do
A /posts/ link from Copy link	YesYes	Paste it as it is
A /feed/update/ address	YesYes	Paste it as it is
A comment or reply link	YesYes	You get two or three dates
An embed link, URN or bare ID	YesYes	Paste it as it is
A repost	YesYes	Dates the repost, not the original
An lnkd.in short link	NoNo	Open it, copy the full address
An article under /pulse/	NoNo	Date the post that shared it
A profile or company page	NoNo	Copy a post's link instead

An lnkd.in link is a redirect with no ID in it, and the extractor never opens links, so it can't follow one. Open it in your browser first.

Not sure which one you have? Paste it anyway. The extractor says in plain words why a link can't be dated and what to copy instead.

When to check a LinkedIn post's date

Whenever the exact age matters more than LinkedIn's rounded stamp.

Before you reach out. A comment from this week makes a warm opener, and one from last quarter needs a different first line. Post engagers also accept invitations more often than a cold list, as the LinkedIn auto connect guide shows.
Client reports. Agencies date client posts for monthly reports without scrolling back through the feed.
Hiring and news. Check when a role, a funding round or a product launch was first announced, before you mention it.
Citations. Quoting a post in an article or a deck needs a real date, which the feed won't give you.
Competitor cadence. Date a rival's last ten posts to see how often they publish and on which days.

How to find recent posts on LinkedIn

Search the topic, open the Posts tab and filter by date. LinkedIn's filter goes down to the past 24 hours.

Search the topic
Type the problem you solve into LinkedIn's search bar, press Enter and open the Posts tab.
Filter by date
Set Sort by to Latest, and Date posted to Past 24 hours, Past week or Past month.
Date the ones worth working
Each result shows a rounded age. Paste a post's link above for its exact time, and the time of any comment you want to quote.

Found a fresh thread worth answering? The LinkedIn automated messaging guide has a warm sequence for people who engaged with a post.

Want the follow-ups sent for you? LinkedIn message automation runs them from your own account and stops when someone replies.

Frequently asked questions

1) Is the LinkedIn post date extractor free?

Yes. There's no signup, no LinkedIn login and no limit on how many posts you date. It runs in your browser and never contacts LinkedIn, so it keeps working when LinkedIn is slow or turns requests away.

2) Is there a Chrome extension that shows LinkedIn post dates?

Yes, a few extensions add the exact date under posts in your feed. They need permission to read the LinkedIn pages you open, and they work only in a desktop browser. This page needs no install: paste a link on any device, phone included.

3) Can I find the date of a LinkedIn comment?

Yes, to the second. A comment's link carries two IDs, the post's and the comment's, so one paste dates both, and a reply link dates the reply too. That settles who answered first in a thread.

4) Does an edited post show the edit date or the original date?

The original. The ID is set when the post is created and doesn't change on edit, so you always get the first publication time. LinkedIn doesn't show when an edit was made, so no tool can date it.

5) Can I date a private or deleted LinkedIn post?

Yes, if you have its link. The date comes from the number in the URL and is worked out in your browser, so the post is never opened. The author isn't notified, and LinkedIn never sees the lookup.

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