Thats a good link.... timestamps will no longer sort correctly when they are 'cmp'ed instead of '<=>'ed. ((10 cmp 9)  != (10 <=> 9)) I had only considered the extra-digit issue, but sorting is probably a bigger problem since 'cmp' is the default and it worked fine in the past.

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

my @a = (5..15);

print "cmp comparison of 9 and 10: ", 10 cmp 9, "\n";
print "<=> comparison of 9 and 10: ", 10 <=> 9, "\n";
print "\n";
print "cmp sort of 5..15: ", join(' ',(sort @a)), "\n";
print "<=> sort of 5..15: ", join(' ',(sort {$a<=>$b} @a)), "\n";

=output
cmp comparison of 9 and 10: -1
<=> comparison of 9 and 10: 1

cmp sort of 5..15: 10 11 12 13 14 15 5 6 7 8 9
<=> sort of 5..15: 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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-Blake