stat can't see the file it's trying to get the stats on. Put chdir($newfile) before the for loop like this

$newfile = "/perl/bin/newr";
opendir(DIR,$newfile);
@files = readdir(DIR);
close(DIR);

chdir ($newfile);
for(@files)
{
print "$_\n";
$filename   = $_;
$_ = $lastaccess = localtime ( (stat($_))[8] );
$_ =               localtime ( (stat($_))[9] ); 
print "accs time : $lastaccess\n";
print "mod  time : $_\n";
}
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     While that will fix it, your code hard to read and trying to figure out what $_ is at any given time hurts my head. Please do it like this...

use strict;

my $newfile = "/perl/bin/newr";

opendir(DIR,$newfile);
my @files = readdir(DIR);
close(DIR);

chdir ($newfile)
    or die "Could not change to $newfile directory\n$!\n";
for(@files) {
    my $filename = $_;
    my $accesstime  = localtime ( (stat($filename))[8] );
    # Doing a file stat on the special _ filehandle tells
    # Perl to use whatever happened to be in memory from the
    # previous stat rather than going out to the operating
    # system again (Llama: 3rd Ed., p.166)
    my $modtime     = localtime ( (stat(_))[9] ); 

    print "file name : $filename\n";
    print "accs time : $accesstime\n";
    print "mod  time : $modtime\n";
}
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