How to cast stat.mtime (float) to readable date-time

[Jim Griffiths]

I need to display the date-time that a file was last updated.   

The value can be obtained with stat on the file:

- name: Get file stats

     stat: path="{{ path_of_file }}"

  register: reg

- debug:

     msg:  “Timestamp of {{path}}: {{reg.stat.mtime}}”

However the output is meaningless because it is a float value.

The only solution I could find requires the creation of a custom filter:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41084097/ansible-cast-float-to-date

Is there a simpler way?

Thank you all.

Jim

[Matt Martz]

You want something like this:

    - debug:

        msg: "Timestamp of {{ path }}: {{ '%c'|strftime(reg.stat.mtime) }}"

Documentation about the strftime filter can be found at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_filters.html

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[Jim Griffiths]

Thanks for the advice, Matt!

Here's what I ended up using:

- debug:

    msg: “Timestamp of {{logpath}}: {{ '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' | strftime(reg.stat.mtime) }}”

Cheers

Jim

On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 10:42:59 AM UTC-4, Matt Martz wrote:

You want something like this:

    - debug:

        msg: "Timestamp of {{ path }}: {{ '%c'|strftime(reg.stat.mtime) }}"

Documentation about the strftime filter can be found at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/playbooks_filters.html

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:36 AM Jim Griffiths <jameswg...@gmail.com> wrote:

I need to display the date-time that a file was last updated.   

The value can be obtained with stat on the file:

- name: Get file stats

     stat: path="{{ path_of_file }}"

  register: reg

- debug:

     msg:  “Timestamp of {{path}}: {{reg.stat.mtime}}”

However the output is meaningless because it is a float value.

The only solution I could find requires the creation of a custom filter:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41084097/ansible-cast-float-to-date

Is there a simpler way?

Thank you all.

Jim

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