Time::Local, for sure: 
use strict;
use Time::Local;

$_ = my $file = "050924102022.log";  # a sample file name

my @tl_data;
unshift @tl_data, $1 while ( s/(\d{2})// );

print join " ", @tl_data, $/;  # just to check

$tl_data[-2]--;  # need to subtract one from month number
                 # (Time::Local can handle year number as-is)

my $file_time = timelocal( @tl_data );

print "$file_time (sec. since epoch) = " . scalar localtime( $file_tim
+e ) . $/;

printf( "%s is %d minutes old\n", $file, int((time()-$file_time)/60));

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in thread Time/date calculation by darrengan

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