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Originally Posted by Valloric
The date of creation being set automatically... I don't think that's what the date of creation is for. As I understand it, it's for the date of creation of the original work, not the epub file. So if you're editing a book published in 1948 but created in 1945, the DoC would say 1945 and DoP would say 1948.
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The specification is not very
specific on what the different dates could mean. This is what I use:
<dc:date opf:event="publication"> For publication of the original work. Multiple instances if the ebook collects multiple works (as in a trilogy or omnibus...)
<dc:date opf:event="translation"> For publication of the translation, if it is a translated work. If there are multiple languages, I use "translation (de)" or "translation (pt)"...
<dc:date opf:event="creation"> For creation of the first ePUB version.
<dc:date opf:event="modification"> For the last modification of the ePUB.
But the specification only says: "The
date element has one
optional OPF event attribute. The set of values for event are not defined by this specification; possible values
may include:
creation,
publication, and
modification."