VBScript

Get Email Date/Time

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

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

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

set dtTime = CreateObject("Chilkat.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:
bLocalTime = 0
outFile.WriteLine(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
outFile.WriteLine(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). 
unixTime = dtTime.GetAsUnixTime(bLocalTime)
outFile.WriteLine("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:
set dtObj = CreateObject("Chilkat.DtObj")
dtTime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dtObj

If (dtTime.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("This should never really happen!")
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine(dtObj.Day & "-" & dtObj.Month & "-" & dtObj.Year & " " & dtObj.Hour & ":" & dtObj.Minute _
     & ":" & dtObj.Second)

outFile.Close