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# Time range controls
Grafana provides numerous ways to manage the time ranges of the data being visualized, both at the Dashboard-level and the Panel-level.
# Dashboard time picker
In the menu you have the time range dropdown (between to Zoom out and refresh links).
In this dropdown you have relative time options, auto refresh options and custom time options.
In the top right, you have the master Dashboard time picker (it's inbetween the 'Zoom out' and the 'Refresh' links).
From this dropdown you can:
1. Specify an exact time range (eg. "October 13 12:01 to October 14 12:05)
2. Choose a relative time (eg. "Last 15 minutes","Last 1 week")
3. Configure auto-refresh options
All of this applies to all Panels in the Dashboard (except those with Panel Time Overrides enabled)
## Custom time
## Customize relative time and auto auto-refresh options
To customize the relative and auto refresh options open the dashboard settings and click the Timepicker tab.
In this tab you can specify the relative and auto refresh intervals. The Timepicker tab settings are saved
on per dashboard basis.
It's possible to customize the options displayed for relative time and the auto-refresh options.
From Dashboard setttings, click the Timepicker tab. From here you can specify the relative and auto refresh intervals. The Timepicker tab settings are saved on a per Dashboard basis.
## Time picker options
## Override
In dashboard settings, `Time Picker` tab you can add or remove the relative time intervals and refresh intervals
that should be available in the time picker dropdown.
## Panel time override
In Grafana 2.0, it's now possible for individual Panels to override the Dashboard time picker. Please check out the [whats new in 2.0 guide](../guides/whats-new-in-v2/) for further information
