When setting up your report parameters you can nominate the default, ranging from NULL through to preset values.
So, have a look at your parameter and decide the most appropriate behaviour.
If you are running the query directly, then it is harder to optionally include the parameters. If you are writing your own code, then you can make the decision to include or not. Far easier to set the default behaviour, even if you set up the values '19000101' and '21001231'