Topic: Is there a way to configure the automatic behavior ?

[ddeconin]

I would only like to have the relative date in places where I explicitly code  the relative date functions, not everywhere on my blog.
Can this be done ?

[GaMerZ]

Nope. It will hook onto wp functions

[ddeconin]

It would be nice if you could add an option to do just that.
Or altenatively get relativedate added as a built in feature of wordpess ?

[Archon810]

I just downloaded this plugin and was shocked that Lester made it fire by default. All I wanted to do was use the functions without any existing dates getting affected.

The fix is easy though. Here you go - stick this into your functions.php:

remove_filter('the_date', 'relative_post_date', 999, 4);
remove_filter('the_time', 'relative_post_time', 999);
remove_filter('get_comment_time', 'relative_comment_time', 999);
remove_filter('get_comment_date', 'relative_comment_date', 999);