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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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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$mime = chilkat::CkMime->new();
$mime->SetBody("this is a test");
$mime->put_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.
$mime->SetHeaderField("Date",$mime->currentDateTime());

print $mime->getMime() . "\r\n";

# The result:

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