ansible - using lookup to get a date timestamp into a variable

output

...
TASK: [debug var=mydate] ******************************************************
ok: [localhost] => {
    "mydate": "20140605101824"
}
...

play.yml

---
- hosts: all
  tasks:
    - set_fact: mydate="{{lookup('pipe','date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S')}}"
    - debug: var=mydate

Is my impression or the register approach will not be able to use it as expected, you will be forced to refer to the variable as current_run_timestamp.stdout which is quite ugly.

@ssbarnea: true, but that can be amended by adding another step: set_fact: the_timestamp = " {{ current_run_timestamp.stdout }}"