With say or print, there is an optional file handle,right after the "print", print $handle "something"; Perl is confused about what you mean if there is just, (localtime)[1] right after the "print". All of these statements below do essentially the same thing.

my $x = (localtime)[1];
print "$x\n";
print "".(localtime)[1],"\n";
print ((localtime)[1],"\n");
print STDOUT (localtime)[1],"\n";
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