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Old 10-03-2012, 03:08 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by curiousgeorge View Post
I would say its a date tag
it's not a date tag, it's a newly required property in epub3. apple requires both the date element and a meta element with the property dcterms:modified for all epub3s.

the date element in the opf should only be used to define the publishing date, whereas the dcterms:modified property is used to define the last time the content of the publication was updated (i suppose for creating updated versions of the same text after proofreading, debugging, etc).

so, if you're intending to produce an epub3, you should have something like
Code:
<dc:date>2000-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
<meta property="dcterms:modified">2011-01-01T12:00:00Z</meta>
in your opf.

i've never seen the <meta ..> prefaced by opf: (ie, <opf:meta ...></opf:meta>), though. where did that come from?

read all about dcterms:modified here: http://idpf.org/epub/30/spec/epub30-...-modified-date
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