(PowerShell) 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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-9.5.0-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"



$mime = New-Object Chilkat.Mime
$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.
$mime.SetHeaderField("Date",$mime.CurrentDateTime)

$($mime.GetMime())

# The result:

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