[PLUG] Server date in Ansible/J2?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

I have what seems to be a simple question that I can't find on the web. 
 How do I get the current date from the Ansible server into a J2 
variable?  I know how to do it with {{ ansible_date_time.date }} but 
that's from the remote node at the time Ansible collected facts (which 
could be cached), NOT now on the server I'm running on.

It should go without saying that I want the date in the only sane format 
(ISO-8601): CCYY-MM-DD.

I found one "solution" that was a filter that shelled out and ran the 
`date` command, but that's just amazingly wrong and bad.  Python knows 
what time it is, so does Ansible, and so does J2.  Just...how do I get 
them to cough it up?

Use case (this works, but it's remote node "setup" (get facts) time, not 
local server "now" time):
  - name: Update image_release file
    lineinfile:
      dest=..../image_release
      state=present
      insertbefore=BOF
      line='{{ ansible_date_time.date }} {{ image_release }}'

There's got to be some way that's so fundamentally simple no one even 
bothers to document it because it's so obvious...except to me.

Thanks,
JP
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