Thanks, both chromatic and japhy,

yeah, I still have some to learn on when to use quoting and when not to...

I've fixed a couple of silly mistakes, and documented it, so I'll post the code below, just in case anyone's interested in using / abusing it.

This is my first attempt at OO perl, after reading the docs yesterday, and I'm very impressed at it's abilities.
I've written this little package with the intention of cleaning up a CGI script I'm working on, and can already see so many possibilities in expanding this package alone, as well as other areas of my script.
Thanks for the help, guys.
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;

my $d = data->new;

print $d->hour($d->now('h')), ":";
print $d->minute($d->now('m')), ":";
print $d->second($d->now('s')), " - ";
print $d->day($d->now('D')), " day of ";
print $d->month($d->now('M')), " ";
print $d->year($d->now('Y')), "\n";;



{ package data;
#########################
#Call a new package with
# my $d = data->new;
#
#Grab the localtime
#(of when a new package was initialized)
#with
# $d->now('s');    #seconds
# $d->now('m');    #minutes
# $d->now('h');    #hour
# $d->now('D');    #day
# $d->now('M');    #month
# $d->now('Y');    #year
#
#"Nicely" format with
# my $value  = 1;
# $d->day($value);    #returns "1st"
# $d->month($value);    #returns "January"
##########################

    sub new {
        my $proto = shift;
        my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
        my @now = localtime();
        $now[0] += 1;    #format the seconds
        $now[1] += 1;    #format the minutes
        $now[2] += 1;    #format the hour
        $now[4] += 1;    #format the month
        $now[5] += 1900;    #format the year
        my $self = {};
        $self->{now_second} = $now[0];
        $self->{now_minute} = $now[1];
        $self->{now_hour} = $now[2];
        $self->{now_day} = $now[3];
        $self->{now_month} = $now[4];
        $self->{now_year} = $now[5];
        bless ($self, $class);
        return $self;
    }
    sub now {
        my $self = shift;
        my $type = shift;
        if ($type eq 's') {
            return $self->{now_second};
        }
        elsif ($type eq 'm') {
            return $self->{now_minute};
        }
        elsif ($type eq 'h') {
            return $self->{now_hour};
        }
        elsif ($type eq 'D') {
            return $self->{now_day};
        }
        elsif ($type eq 'M') {
            return $self->{now_month};
        }
        elsif ($type eq 'Y') {
            return $self->{now_year};
        }
    }
    sub second {
        my $self = shift;
        my $value = shift;
        return $value;
    }
    sub minute {
        my $self = shift;
        my $value = shift;
        return $value;
    }
    sub hour {
        my $self = shift;
        my $value = shift;    #line 69
        return $value;
    }
    sub day {
        my $self = shift;
        my $value = shift;
        if ($value == 1) { "1st" }
        elsif ($value == 2) { "2nd" }
        elsif ($value == 3) { "3rd" }
        elsif ($value == 21) { "21st" }
        elsif ($value == 22) { "22nd" }
        elsif ($value == 23) { "23rd" }
        elsif ($value == 31) { "31st" }
        elsif (($value >= 4) && ($value <= 31)) {
            return $value . "th";
        }
        else { "invalid day" }
    }
    sub month {
        my $self = shift;
        my $value = shift;
        if ($value == 1) { "January" }
        elsif ($value == 2) { "February" }
        elsif ($value == 3) { "March" }
        elsif ($value == 4) { "April" }
        elsif ($value == 5) { "May" }
        elsif ($value == 6) { "June" }
        elsif ($value == 7) { "July" }
        elsif ($value == 8) { "August" }
        elsif ($value == 9) { "September" }
        elsif ($value == 10) { "October" }
        elsif ($value == 11) { "November" }
        elsif ($value == 12) { "December" }
        else { "invalid month" }
    }
    sub year {
        my $self = shift;
        my $value = shift;
        return $value;
    }
}

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