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Up to this point there's only been one kind of short term promo option: advertising your Kindle Free Days.
And advertising your Kindle Free days has been the only advertised option that allows an author to specify which day the promo runs. Of course, if someone wanted a specific day, I would try to work with them so that they got what they wanted.
But for the most part, for most promo posts, I've picked the dates.