Visual Basic 6.0

Get Email Date/Time

Demonstrates getting the email "Date" header field in a CkDateTime object. Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim email As New ChilkatEmail

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

Dim dtTime As New CkDateTime
success = 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:
Dim bLocalTime As Long
bLocalTime = 0
Debug.Print dtTime.GetAsRfc822(bLocalTime)

' 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 = 1
Debug.Print dtTime.GetAsRfc822(bLocalTime)

' 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). 
Dim unixTime As Long
unixTime = dtTime.GetAsUnixTime(bLocalTime)
Debug.Print "Unix time: " & unixTime

' 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:
Dim dtObj As New DtObj
dtTime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dtObj

If (dtTime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print "This should never really happen!"
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print dtObj.Day & "-" & dtObj.Month & "-" & dtObj.Year & " " & dtObj.Hour & ":" & dtObj.Minute _
     & ":" & dtObj.Second