# HOW-TO: set the time picker to "This month"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-time-picker-to-this-month/46045>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 1, 2016, 11:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-set-the-time-picker-to-this-month/46045 "2016-04-01T11:02:28Z")\
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Hi Nikos,

I believe the value you are looking for is:

```
{
  "from": "now/M",
  "to": "now/M",
  "mode": "quick"
}
```

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