conditional variables depending on time

[James Gibson]

I am trying to output what shift an event has happened depending on the time of day, but keep running into errors or getting nothing back.

---

- hosts: localhost

  vars:

     shift: "{{ 'First Shift' if ansible_date_time.time > '09:00:00' && ansible_date_time.time < '17:00:01' else '' }}"

     shift: "{{ 'Second Shift' if ansible_date_time.time > '17:00:00' && ansible_date_time.time < '01:00:01' else '' }}"

     shift: "{{ 'Third Shift' if ansible_date_time.time > '01:00:00' && ansible_date_time.time < '09:00:01' else '' }}"

  

  tasks:

    - name: Validate shift

      debug:

          msg: "An event occured on {{ shift }}"

[Kai Stian Olstad]

On 28.03.2019 21:17, James Gibson wrote:
> I am trying to output what shift an event has happened depending on the
> time of day, but keep running into errors or getting nothing back.
>
>
> ---
> - hosts: localhost
> vars:
> shift: "{{ 'First Shift' if ansible_date_time.time > '09:00:00' && ansible_date_time.time < '17:00:01' else '' }}"
> shift: "{{ 'Second Shift' if ansible_date_time.time > '17:00:00' && ansible_date_time.time < '01:00:01' else '' }}"
> shift: "{{ 'Third Shift' if ansible_date_time.time > '01:00:00' && ansible_date_time.time < '09:00:01' else '' }}"

There are two reason this will not work.
The second shift will overwrite the first shift and the third shift will overwrite the second shift.
ansible_date_time.time is a string an you are comparing string, since time compare and string compare is completely different thing, this will not work as you would like.



--
Kai Stian Olstad

[oly...@gmail.com]

I figured it out by using set_fact and when for the conditionals. Thanks for the reply.

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