(Ruby) 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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require 'chilkat'



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() + "\n";

# The result:

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