I iwll be interested to see the responses on this. The "Date" column starts off being the date you added to Calibre. However I thought there were some actions which caused this to be updated so it then becomes a "last modified" column? The behaviour may have changed on this, it was just something I thought I used to see happen many versions ago.
I started using save to disk recently to share some books with my parents to import into their Calibre library, with the cover/metadata.opf file etc. One thing I found was that when I loaded the books into their library, the Date column has the value from the metadata.opf. So they are unable to use the date column to see which are the new books they have just imported into Calibre, which isn't great for them. Instead they see the date that I imported them to Calibre.
You can use tags for newly added books but that is an extra maintenance step to then remove them which I would prefer they did not have.
There may be something that can be done with a custom column to set it to todays date perhaps?
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