Lua

Mime CurrentDateTime

The CurrentDateTime property is provide as a convenient way of getting the current date/time in RFC822 format, which is often needed for the MIME Date header field.

It is not actually a property of the MIME object. It simply returns the current date/time of the system.

Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local success = false

local mime = chilkat.Mime.new()
mime:set_body("this is a test")
mime.content_type = "text/plain"

-- The CurrentDateTime property is just a convenient way of
-- get the current date/time in RFC 822 format.  It saves us
-- the trouble of looking elsewhere for this common need.
mime:set_header_field("Date", mime.current_date_time)

print(mime:get_mime())

-- The result:

--     Content-Type: text/plain
--     Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 10:18:49 -0500
--
--     this is a test