# Can I disable the 'helpful' date-range approximation?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-disable-the-helpful-date-range-approximation/374758>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 19, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-disable-the-helpful-date-range-approximation/374758 "2025-02-19T12:02:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_Baverstock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tim_baverstock/32/77319_2.png) [@Tim\_Baverstock](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tim_Baverstock)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-disable-the-helpful-date-range-approximation/374758/1 "2025-02-19T12:02:33Z")

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When I'm trying to set a relative time - 25 hours ago or 29 days - for some display, the display automatically rounds it to '~ 1 day' or '~ 1 month', and then when I want to tweak it to 26 hours or 30 days, the dialogue offers me 1 day or 1 month, and I have to set the units back in addition to having to type the number in full, not merely being able to tweak the number by adding one.

How do I tell Kibana not to approximate my values or ignore my choice of units?

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**Author:** ![Marco\_Liberati](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marco_liberati/32/82953_2.png) [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2025, 9:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-i-disable-the-helpful-date-range-approximation/374758/2 "2025-02-26T09:10:14Z")

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Hi @Tim_Baverstock

No, this is not possible yet in Kibana.  
You can open a feature enhancement here to request it here: [Sign in to GitHub · GitHub](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new/choose)

I see the native EUI component supports a `canRoundRelativeUnits ` [here](https://eui.elastic.co/#/templates/super-date-picker) but that is not used by Kibana.