Visual Basic 6.0

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.

Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim mime As New ChilkatMime
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.
success = mime.SetHeaderField("Date",mime.CurrentDateTime)

Debug.Print mime.GetMime()

' The result:

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