Well, it helps to finally ask a question, because I finally found how to change the date range in the new version of Google Analytics by going to the old version and seeing how that looked.

It turns out the new version removes the date range box so it is pretty far above the hour/day/week/month box. It is by clicking the actual date range box that the calendar comes up. I do not know why it was so hard to figure out in the new version, and I still do not see the option in the menu, but maybe I will find it based on seeing the old version.

Notageek