Please could I have some help with the following bit of code. I need to get the times appropriately assigned to variables. 
foreach ( @directories_time_tagged )
{
  
  $directory_name = $_;

  if ($directory_name =~ /(\d\d\d\d)_(\d\d)_(\d\d)_(\d\d)/) {  # Year_
+month_day_hour
        
    $year = $1;
    $month = $2;
    $day = $3;
    $hour = $4;
        
  }
    
  my $date_time =     ;  # The time indicated by $year $month $day $ho
+ur
  my $now =           ;  # Not sure how to get this value


  if ($date_time => $now )   # If the date has been passed
    {
      print "\nconditions have been met\n";

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Update :

This is running on Windows.

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