title: Get timestamp from Ansible control server and add it to a command run on remote system
body: <p>I am running Ansible playbooks from a Linux server, and connecting to remote network appliances. I have a playbook to archive the configuration of the remote applaince, in a storage location on the appliance itself. It is basically a 'copy running-config {{ filename }}' job.  How can I grab the timestamp from the control server before I run the remote command?  Basically I want to store the control server's timestamp in a variable and then summon the variable when I run the remote archive command.</p>