diff --git a/applications/utilities/parallelProcessing/redistributePar/redistributePar.C b/applications/utilities/parallelProcessing/redistributePar/redistributePar.C
index fb09b40bd3122d914259b154b7a23d3e8458dac0..f2a821ae2927090a0ce8324f6c88287887e07cb8 100644
--- a/applications/utilities/parallelProcessing/redistributePar/redistributePar.C
+++ b/applications/utilities/parallelProcessing/redistributePar/redistributePar.C
@@ -434,6 +434,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
         "specify the merge distance relative to the bounding box size "
         "(default 1e-6)"
     );
+    // Include explicit constant options, have zero from time range
+    timeSelector::addOptions();
+
 #   include "setRootCase.H"
 
     if (env("FOAM_SIGFPE"))
@@ -457,6 +460,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
     // Make sure we do not use the master-only reading.
     regIOobject::fileModificationChecking = regIOobject::timeStamp;
 #   include "createTime.H"
+    // Allow override of time
+    instantList times = timeSelector::selectIfPresent(runTime, args);
+    runTime.setTime(times[0], 0);
 
     runTime.functionObjects().off();