s9y/additional_plugins — comment on commit a06ee8751dae13833c57fccc5988cfe9b55947a0
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By garvinhicking:

The pubDate is not that important, however it gives a good indication about the last modification date in case of problems, and it also makes the XML's RSS compliant. So IMHO this really belongs into the file (it's the filemtime of the PHP file of a plugin)...