Ruby Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Get Email Date/Time

Demonstrates getting the email "Date" header field in a CkDateTime object. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

email = Chilkat::CkEmail.new()

#  Load a .eml file into the email object.
success = email.LoadEml("/home/users/chilkat/eml/myEml.eml")

dtTime = Chilkat::CkDateTime.new()
dtTime.SetFromRfc822(email.emailDateStr())

#  Once we have the CkDateTime object, we can get the date/time in many different formats:

#  Get as a RFC822 GMT string:
bLocalTime = false
print dtTime.getAsRfc822(bLocalTime) + "\n";

#  Get as an RFC822 string in the local timezone.
#  (remember, the daylight savings that existed at the given time in the past is applied)
bLocalTime = true
print dtTime.getAsRfc822(bLocalTime) + "\n";

#  Get as a 32-bit UNIX time (local or GMT..)
#  The Unix time is number of seconds since the Epoch, 1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC). 
unixTime = dtTime.GetAsUnixTime(bLocalTime)
print "Unix time: " + unixTime.to_s() + "\n";

#  One can also get the as a "DtObj" object for accessing the individual
#  parts of the date/time, such as month, day, year, hour, minute, etc.
#  The DtObj can be obtained in the GMT or local timezone:
dtObj = Chilkat::CkDtObj.new()
dtTime.ToDtObj(bLocalTime,dtObj)

if (dtTime.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false)
    print "This should never really happen!" + "\n";
    exit
end

print dtObj.get_Day().to_s() + "-" + dtObj.get_Month().to_s() + "-" + dtObj.get_Year().to_s() + " " + dtObj.get_Hour().to_s() + ":" + dtObj.get_Minute().to_s() + ":" + 
    dtObj.get_Second().to_s() + "\n";