scalar localtime misses the time zone that appears in the OP's example. I'd use strftime to get it exact.

$ perl -e 'print scalar localtime, "\n"'
Sun Sep 22 13:01:42 2002
$ perl '-MPOSIX qw(strftime)' -e 'print strftime( "%a %b %d %T %Z %Y",
+ localtime ), "\n"'
Sun Sep 22 13:01:48 PDT 2002
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