Not really. Perl doesn't know anything about date.

delete $ENV{path};
die `date`;
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date is an external program, and as such, depends on the ENVironment. It is a very bad idea to do things like `date`. This ain't shell programming, this is perl, and perl has gmtime() and localtime() which in scalar context return a neato time string, as in

perl -le die~~gmtime
perl -le die~~localtime
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Now that's called portability.

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