community.general.to_hours filter – Converte a duration string to hours

Note

This filter plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.to_hours.

New in community.general 0.2.0

Synopsis

  • Parse a human readable time duration string and convert to hours.

Input

This describes the input of the filter, the value before | community.general.to_hours.

Parameter

Comments

Input

string / required

The time string to convert.

Can use the units y and year for a year, mo and month for a month, w and week for a week, d and day for a day, h and hour for a hour, m, min and minute for minutes, s, sec and second for seconds, ms, msec, msecond and millisecond for milliseconds. The suffix s can be added to a unit as well, so seconds is the same as second.

Valid strings are space separated combinations of an integer with an optional minus sign and a unit.

Examples are 1h, -5m, and 3h -5m 6s.

Keyword parameters

This describes keyword parameters of the filter. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following example: input | community.general.to_hours(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)

Parameter

Comments

month

float

Number of days per month.

Default: 30.0

year

float

Number of days per year.

Default: 365.0

Examples

- name: Convert a duration into hours
  ansible.builtin.debug:
    msg: "{{ '7d 30h 20m 10s 123ms' | community.general.to_hours }}"

Return Value

Key

Description

Return value

float

Number of hours.

Returned: success

Authors

  • René Moser (@resmo)

Hint

Configuration entries for each entry type have a low to high priority order. For example, a variable that is lower in the list will override a variable that is higher up.