Mail not setting timestamp

[Lorenzo Thurman]

Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> Lorenzo Thurman wrote:
>> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>>> Lorenzo Thurman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm using the Mimewriter and mimetools modules to create html messages.
>>>> They work OK, except that when the messages are received, they always
>>>> have the timestamp of 12/31/1969. I've looked through both packages and
>>>>
>>> The date goes into the message headers, like From, To, Subject...
>>> message.add_header("Date", "Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:18:15 -0300")
>>>
>> Thanks for the reply. When I try this though, I get an error:
>> AttributeError: 'datetime.datetime' object has no attribute 'split'
>> I'm trying to use a variable for the date, since of course, it should
>> always be 'now'.
> 
> You have to convert the date into a string, using the right format.
> The docs for the time module have a recipe:
> http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-time.html
> (look for RFC 2822)
> 
> --
> Gabriel Genellina
> 
Got it!
thx