Date selection methods - Amazon Quicksight

Have you looked at parameters and controls in the Dashboard?

you can refer to the following blog posts for examples:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-data/using-quicksight-parameters-and-controls-to-drive-interactivity-in-your-dashboards/

and

https://awscloudfeed.com/whats-new/big-data/amazon-quicksight-adds-support-for-on-sheet-filter-controls

Also, for QuickSight related questions we have launched a fully dedicated community; in case you want to check there to see if there are further answer to your questions.

hope this helps,