In the latter case, Perl calls the shell to handle the redirection, but command.com and cmd.exe have a built-in date command. Specify the full path to your Cygwin date binary. Alternatively, you probably should use something like print scalar localtime.
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Strange, your question does not have any relations to perl.
When I tried your situation on my computer, I got predicted behaviour, namely date commands with any redirections worked good.
I think our difference may be influented by cygwin versions, and remember there is a DOS-builtin date command which asks for a date to change, so you probably somehow got out of your cygwin environment and got into bultin (win?)DOS commands.
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