Looks like a namespace problem when you use Time::localtime, the pod for Time::localtime; shows localtime namespace being an Time::tm=ARRAY(0x224f8c) and the localtime3,4,5 assign ARRAY refs as well, if you use the module looks like you need to do this... it kinda looks cleaner than trying to remember what array element maps to what... ++ for interesting question

use Time::localtime;

my $year  = 1900 + localtime->year; 
my $month = 1    + localtime->mon; 
my $day   =        localtime->mday;

print "$year-$month-$day\n";

#OUTPUT: 2003-5-28
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