use HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath;

my $html = q|<div class="message reply">
<span class="profile fn">Person Name</span>
<span class="time published" title="2012-03-14T21:37:16+0000">March 14, 2012 at 3:37 pm</span>
<abbr class="time published" title="2013-03-17T21:37:16+0000">March 17, 2013 at 3:37 pm</abbr>
<div class="msgbody">Message body here.</div>
</div>|;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath->new_from_content($html);

my @nodes = $tree->findnodes('//*[@class="time published"]');

for my $node ( @nodes ) {
	print $node->attr('title'), "\n";
	print $node->as_text, "\n";
}