At 2020-04-30T23:00:00 my local time, it will be considered May 1st by your approach.

To use local time (or some other time zone), you can use the following approach: 

use DateTime qw( );

( my $now = DateTime->now( time_zone => 'local' ) )
   ->set_time_zone('floating');

my $cutoff_date = DateTime->new(
   year      => $now->year,
   month     => 5,
   day       => 1,
   time_zone => 'floating',
);

if ($now < $cutoff_date) {
   # do stuff
}

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The floating tz is used instead of local since some time zones have days don't have a midnight.

In reply to Re^2: How to calculate if today is before May 1 by ikegami
in thread How to calculate if today is before May 1 by htmanning

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