This is a followup to my query Time::Piece strangeness. While using Time::Piece comparision, in the following code:

use Time::Piece;
my $t = Time::Piece->strptime("31-01-200", "%d-%m-%Y");
$t1 = Time::Piece->strptime("31-01-2005", "%d-%m-%Y");
if($t1 > $t){
  print "To be or not to be.";
}
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I get the following error:

Day too big - 47512 > 24855
Sec too small - 47512 < 74752
Sec too big - 47512 > 11647
Cannot handle date (0, 0, 0, 31, 0, 2100) at /usr/lib/i686-linux/Time/
+Piece.pm line 288
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I have read the documentation for Time::Piece, but could not solve it. To fix this, Im trapping the comparision in an eval block.

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