Stackoverflow to the rescue!.

This works: 

perl -MList::MoreUtils -E 'my %stuff=(otherinfo=>"this and that",
     dateinfo=>{List::MoreUtils::zip 
     @{[qw|sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst|]}
      ,@{[localtime(time)]}
     });
  say "sec=",$stuff{dateinfo}{sec},
      "  year=",$stuff{dateinfo}{year}'

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From the article ....
... They technically don't need to be named, just dereferenced. e.g. @$ref and @{qw( foo bar )} work just as well as @a. In other words, it has to start with @ (and not be a slice). (ikegami)

Update:Loops(++) answered identically, at the same time I discovered this.

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In reply to Re^2: localtime parse within hash init by NetWallah
in thread localtime parse within hash init by NetWallah

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