$time = print $error|print $F[0];

That attempt to pipe one statement to another statement like you would do when piping shell commands won't work.

You've already been shown a couple ways to extract the datestamp.

$error = '2014-06-04T15:24:21-05:00 syslog_dp [0x80e00099][ftp][error]
+ secure-backup(FBB): trans(5487)';

$time = (split /\s/, $error)[0];
print $time, "\n";

# or you could do this:
($time) = $error =~ /^(\S+)/;
print $time, "\n";

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