Comic blog post time only?

I’m working on a new responsive design and comic easel is only showing the time posted rather than the date and time.

In the comicblogpost.php I see the line:

if ($instance['showdate']) { echo "<div class=\"comic-post-widget-date\">".get_the_time(get_option('time_format'))."</div>\r\n"; }

which shows it is only posting the time…

I changed the php to work using the code below, but obviously any future updates to comic easel will override it.

if ($instance['showdate']) { echo "<div class=\"comic-post-widget-date\">on ".get_the_date()."</div>"; echo "<div class=\"comic-post-widget-date\">at ".get_the_time(get_option('time_format'))."</div>\r\n";}

Is there an option I am missing somewhere to have it show the date or is it actually in the coding?

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