Server date in Ansible/J2?

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I have what seems to be a simple question that I can't find on the web.  How do I get the current date from the Ansible server into a J2 variable?  I know how to do it with {{ ansible_date_time.date }} but that's from the remote node at the time Ansible collected facts (which could be cached), NOT "now" on the server I'm running on...right?

Use case (this works, but it's remote node "setup" (get facts) time, not local server "now" time):
 - name: Update image_release file
   lineinfile:
     dest=..../image_release
     state=present
     insertbefore=BOF
     line='{{ ansible_date_time.date }} {{ image_release }}'

How do I get "now" on the server I'm running on?
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Check out lookups
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_lookups.html

{{ lookup('pipe','date') }}