diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a81ab814d74..697ca26f86f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 - Correction to ms axis formater, now formats days correctly. (Issue #189)
 - Css fix for Firefox and using top menu dropdowns in panel fullscren / edit mode (Issue #106)
 - Browser page title is now Grafana - {{dashboard title}} (Issue #294)
+- Disable auto refresh zooming in (every time you change to an absolute time range), refresh will be restored when you change time range back to relative (Issue #282)
 - More graphite functions
 
 # 1.5.2 (2014-03-24)
diff --git a/src/app/services/filterSrv.js b/src/app/services/filterSrv.js
index aeb2ef71344..7126a14d5e6 100644
--- a/src/app/services/filterSrv.js
+++ b/src/app/services/filterSrv.js
@@ -87,6 +87,16 @@ define([
     this.setTime = function(time) {
       _.extend(self.time, time);
 
+      // disable refresh if we have an absolute time
+      if (time.to !== 'now') {
+        self.old_refresh = dashboard.current.refresh;
+        dashboard.set_interval(false);
+      }
+      else if (self.old_refresh && self.old_refresh !== dashboard.current.refresh) {
+        dashboard.set_interval(self.old_refresh);
+        self.old_refresh = null;
+      }
+
       $timeout(function(){
         dashboard.refresh();
       },0);