# The dashboard stats' date picker drives me crazy 😵‍💫

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**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [August 11, 2022, 3:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-dashboard-stats-date-picker-drives-me-crazy/235885 "2022-08-11T15:50:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-dashboard-stats-date-picker-drives-me-crazy/235885/3 "2022-09-17T20:42:06Z")

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I figured out a few days ago that the current most practical way in my opinion to select dates is to edit them directly in the URL query.

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Edit: I also figured out that the reason for which the numbers reset to 0 in the date picker is that if you want to write a number \< 10, you must not write 07, but 7. Typing the leading zero makes things go wrong.

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