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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.

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Objective-C
#import <CkoMime.h>

BOOL success = NO;

CkoMime *mime = [[CkoMime alloc] init];
[mime SetBody: @"this is a test"];
mime.ContentType = @"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 SetHeaderField: @"Date" value: mime.CurrentDateTime];

NSLog(@"%@",[mime GetMime]);

//  The result:

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