# DateTime Picker defaulting only the time **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [December 14, 2025, 4:12am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-picker-defaulting-only-the-time/112802 "2025-12-14T04:12:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cory\_Lambert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cory\_Lambert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Cory_Lambert)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-picker-defaulting-only-the-time/112802/21 "2025-12-14T17:47:10Z")
Got this limitation resolved. The start and end date picker components are passing values into a named query parameter. To prevent the query running each time this value changes (eg, user is scrolling through time selector with arrows), there’s a button that needs to be clicked to execute the query. I’ve got the button script resetting the view custom property back to 1 ---
**Author:** ![Cory\_Lambert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Cory\_Lambert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Cory_Lambert)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2025, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-picker-defaulting-only-the-time/112802/22 "2025-12-14T18:00:42Z")
This really should be a property on the component. Something like “initial time” ---
**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 8:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-picker-defaulting-only-the-time/112802/23 "2025-12-15T08:43:08Z")
At some point it just becomes easier to have a component for the date, and another one for the time. [Previous page](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-picker-defaulting-only-the-time/112802.md?page=1)