Thanks, Kovid. I goofed, I meant to say that I did change the Date column, not the Published Date.
What I see is:
Calibre library view: Date column shows the correct date, the one I set it to. (26-March-2011)
Calibre device view: Date column shows the date I transferred the file via USB using Calibre. (25-March-2011)
Kindle 3 "drive" on computer: Shows one issue under News, with the file name as per my prior post.
Kindle 3 screen: shows one issue, with the Date of when I downloaded the issue (24-March-2011, which was yesterday).
(I tried emailing the same issue that I transferred via USB. The emailed issue gets received into the Periodicals Back Issues on the Kindle, but it has the date that I originally downloaded the issue via the Recipe (24-March-2011))
Any thoughts?
PS. Additional info, I just looked at the .opf file and here's what I see:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" unique-identifier="uuid_id">
<metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns
pf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="calibre" id="calibre_id">115</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier opf:scheme="uuid" id="uuid_id">5650ca96-a9dd-4b03-ba72-c7dbf5746bd5</dc:identifier>
<dc:title>The Economist</dc:title>
<dc:creator opf:file-as="calibre" opf:role="aut">calibre</dc:creator>
<dc:contributor opf:file-as="calibre" opf:role="bkp">calibre (0.7.50) [http://calibre-ebook.com]</dc:contributor>
<dc:date>2011-03-24T06:00:00+00:00</dc:date>
<dc:description><p class="description">Global news and current affairs from a European perspective.</p></dc:description>
<dc
ublisher>calibre</dc
ublisher>
<dc:language>en</dc:language>
<dc:subject>News</dc:subject>
<dc:subject>The Economist</dc:subject>
<meta content="0" name="calibre:rating"/>
<meta content="2011-03-26T06:00:00+00:00" name="calibre:timestamp"/>
<meta content="Economist, The" name="calibre:title_sort"/>
</metadata>
<guide>
<reference href="cover.jpg" type="cover" title="Cover"/>
</guide>
</package>
So the Date column that I see on the Calibre Library seems to be calibre:timestamp. The date metadata being sent to the Kindle is dc:date, and I don't know why the filename on a USB transfer is getting concatenated w/ the date of the transfer.