I figured it out by using set_fact and when for the conditionals. Thanks for
the reply.
> On Mar 29, 2019, at 1:03 PM, Kai Stian Olstad
> <ansible-project+l...@olstad.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
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