A perusal of perldoc perlfunc might be in order. It comments on this issue explicitly.

As a side note, you don't need to use Time::Local to use the localtime function. Time::Local provides the inverse of localtinme (that is, produces UNIX datestamp from a an array).

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'