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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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LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oMime

nSuccess := 0

oMime := CreateObject("Chilkat.Mime")
oMime:SetBody("this is a test")
oMime: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.
oMime:SetHeaderField("Date", oMime:CurrentDateTime)

? oMime:GetMime()

//  The result:

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

oMime:destroy()