Thank you for posting your solution here on this forum!
You can also use more specific code to hide only date since your code hides the entire .entry-meta which means that you also hide Author name and categories. But to get rid of just date and only date you can use code like this:
Oops! It solved my problem and I thought others might benefit, but since I’m such a newbie (and was partly wrong on this) perhaps it’s best that I not do that again! Thanks for the clarification.
I am just now seeing this now (sorry, email notifications are still not working.)