use Time::Piece; use Time::Seconds; use strict; my $dateformat = "%H:%M:%S, %m/%d/%Y"; my $date1 = "11:56:41, 09/14/2022"; my $date2 = "11:22:41, 09/16/2022"; my $date3 = "11:20:41, 09/13/2022"; $date1 = Time::Piece->strptime($date1, $dateformat); $date2 = Time::Piece->strptime($date2, $dateformat); $date3 = Time::Piece->strptime($date3, $dateformat); my(@ds) = ($date1,$date2,$date3); my(@sorted) = sort(@ds); foreach my $dt (@sorted){ print $dt, $/; }