Question 1: why is it sorting the future date at the top of the list?

Because you are sorting lexically and F comes before T and W.

use strict;
use warnings;

use Time::Piece;
use Time::Seconds;

my $dateformat = "%H:%M:%S, %m/%d/%Y";

my $date1 = "11:56:41, 09/14/2022";
my $date2 = "11:22:41, 09/16/2022";
my $date3 = "11:20:41, 09/13/2022";

$date1 = Time::Piece->strptime($date1, $dateformat);
$date2 = Time::Piece->strptime($date2, $dateformat);
$date3 = Time::Piece->strptime($date3, $dateformat);


my(@ds) = ($date1,$date2,$date3);

my(@sorted) = sort(@ds);

print "Lexically\n";

foreach my $dt (@sorted){
    print $dt, $/;
}

@sorted = sort { $a->epoch <=> $b->epoch } @ds;

print "\nTemporally\n";

foreach my $dt (@sorted){
    print $dt, $/;
}

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Question 2: is using Time::Piece->(strptime) the best way to create objects for each of my variables? I didn't see any other way to do that in the doc.

Yes, it probably is the best way. Note that you could use arrays throughout instead of $date1, $date2, $date3, etc.

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In reply to Re: Time::Piece puzzlement by hippo
in thread Time::Piece puzzlement by slugger415

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