Is the date of purchase the date of activation of my iPad?

Warranty status can be determined by entering the serial number at: https://checkcoverage.apple.com

There is no need to know the purchase date. Also activation has nothing to do with the purchase date or with the warranty status.

Warranty starts the moment the device is purchased from Apple or an Authorized reseller. If you buy a device, and wait a year to activate it, the warranty will have started and run out by then regardless.

The Activation date is not something you can know, as there is no mechanism for it. The Purchase date can be determined from the purchase receipt only. But the website provided does not require you know the purchase date. Apple also does not require the date, as their Warranty system already knows that as shown in the website above.

If there is an issue with the warranty that requires the purchase receipt to verify the purchase date, then you will need the receipt and only the receipt to clarify that issue.

It may or may not be. The Date of Activation could be the same as the date of purchase if you in fact activated it and set it up the same day.

Otherwise it's possible is different if you set it up several days after being bought.

There is no way to know when a device was activated. And no real purpose either to know that.

What exactly are you trying to do? Why do you think you need this date?

More than likely you did not purchase the iPad from an Authorized Reseller or an Apple Store. This is what is called a gray area purchase, and the warranty began when the device was purchased from Apple or an Authorized Reseller before it got to the seller you bought it from. There isn't anything you can do about that except to make sure you purchase direct from Apple or an Authorized Reseller.

It's important to know the purchase date/activation date, because it lends the the validity of the one-year Apple Warranty in case it needs to be replaced/refurbished.

You do not need to provide that information for warranty purposes. Apple already has that.

Thank you so much for this information! I was completely under the wrong Impression!