I saw the idea for a time hash somewhere long ago. I keep this snippet on our work wiki site so I don't forget. It could be cleaned, but is useful (one variable to hold the time data.) 
sub h_localtime() {
      my %time;
      my @time = localtime(time);
      my $iter = 0;
      my @iter = qw/sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst/;
      foreach (@iter) {
              $time{$_} = $time[$iter];
              $iter++;
      }
      $time{mon}++;  # make month 1..12 instead of 0..11
      $time{year}+=1900;  # make year absolute instead of (year-1900) 
      $time{wday}++; # make week day 1..7 instead of 0..6
      return %time;
}

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The programmer can then do this: 
my %t = h_localtime;
printf "%d %d %d\n", @t{qw/mday mon year/};
I don't know that it's a significant benefit in the parent example, but I like it.

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