The variable ansible_date_time.date gives the current date and time stamp, however I wish to increment this date by 'X' minutes/days. Is there any built in method or logic to do this?
The - operator seems to work with date operands, however there doesn't seem to be any straightforward way to increment a date.
I want to accomplish this in a yml script itself and not by using additional Python scripting as described in Is it possible to manipulate the date in an Ansible Playbook
The command module can be used as shown in the following snippet to increment the current date. This worked for me as expected.
- command: "date +'%d-%m-%Y' -d '+3 days'"
register: result
- debug: msg="{{result.stdout}}"
This will return the date in dd-mm-yyyy format. For example, if today's date is "03-07-2017", it will increment the date by 3 days (as mentioned in the command shown in above example snippet) and would return "06-07-2017".