diff --git a/spec/init_once_spec.rb b/spec/init_once_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ffe52c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spec/init_once_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+require 'spec_helper'
+
+describe 'initialising the same element twice', type: :feature, js: true do
+
+  let(:today) { Time.now.utc.to_date }
+
+  before { add_post_resource }
+  before { visit '/admin/posts' }
+
+  def filter
+    page.find('.filter_date_range')
+  end
+
+  def init_again(options = '')
+    page.execute_script(
+      "$('form.filter_form div.filter_date_range').date_range_ext_preset(#{options});"
+    )
+  end
+
+  # first, not find: with the bug there are two links, and an ambiguous-match
+  # error would mask whatever the example is actually asserting.
+  def pick_today
+    page.first('.filter_date_range a.btn_timerange').click
+    page.find('.block_timerange .btn_today').click
+  end
+
+  def chosen_range
+    inputs = filter.all('input[type="text"]')
+    [inputs.first.value, inputs.last.value]
+  end
+
+  # The auto-init was dead from jQuery 3 until it was restored, so the
+  # workaround -- calling the plugin by hand in active_admin.js -- is what
+  # host apps are carrying. Both run after an upgrade.
+  context 'with no options' do
+    before { init_again }
+
+    it 'leaves one "Set range" link, not one per call' do
+      expect(filter).to have_css('a.btn_timerange', count: 1)
+    end
+
+    it 'leaves one click handler, not one per call' do
+      count = page.evaluate_script(
+        "$._data($('form.filter_form div.filter_date_range')[0], 'events').click.length"
+      )
+
+      expect(count).to eq(1)
+    end
+
+    it 'still fills the inputs' do
+      pick_today
+
+      expect(chosen_range).to eq([today.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
+                                  (today + 1).strftime('%Y-%m-%d')])
+    end
+  end
+
+  # Sprockets puts the plugin's own ready callback ahead of anything the host
+  # appends to active_admin.js, so a guard that kept the first wiring would
+  # drop the host's configuration without a word.
+  context 'when the second call passes options' do
+    before { init_again('{ date_to_human_readable: true }') }
+
+    it 'honours them instead of discarding them' do
+      pick_today
+
+      expect(chosen_range).to eq([today.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'),
+                                  today.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')])
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/vendor/assets/javascripts/active_admin_date_range_preset.js b/vendor/assets/javascripts/active_admin_date_range_preset.js
index 4ed2d9a..cdc33f5 100644
--- a/vendor/assets/javascripts/active_admin_date_range_preset.js
+++ b/vendor/assets/javascripts/active_admin_date_range_preset.js
@@ -54,6 +54,21 @@ $(function () {
     return this.each(function(i, el) {
       let $this = $(el);
 
+      // Re-initialising an element replaces its wiring instead of adding to
+      // it. The auto-init below was dead from jQuery 3 onwards, so hosts
+      // worked around it by calling the plugin themselves; now that it works
+      // again both run, and without this the label grows a second "Set range"
+      // whose handler tears down the first one's popup.
+      //
+      // Replacing rather than skipping matters: the auto-init registers its
+      // ready callback before anything a host adds to active_admin.js, so
+      // bailing out on the second call would silently drop the host's
+      // options. Reading the link itself rather than a data flag keeps the
+      // guard and the thing it guards from drifting apart across clone() and
+      // Turbo cache restores, which copy the node but not jQuery's data.
+      $this.find('a.btn_timerange').remove();
+      $this.off('click.dateRangeExtPreset');
+
       // Per element, because data-show-time is read off the element itself.
       // Writing it back into the shared opts let one pair's setting reach
       // every other pair in the same call, and formatDate reads the flag at
@@ -93,7 +108,7 @@ $(function () {
         lteq_input.val(formatDate(end, el_opts));
       }
 
-      $this.on('click', '.btn_timerange', function(e) {
+      $this.on('click.dateRangeExtPreset', '.btn_timerange', function(e) {
         unbindClickEventBlockTimerange();
         e.stopPropagation();
         e.preventDefault();