When you declare a variable with my, the declaration takes effect for the following statement. This allows you to do things like:

#!perl

my $x = 'outer';
{
  my $x = $x;    # new $x, copy value from old $x
  print "$x\n";
  $x = 'inner';
  print "$x\n";
}
print "$x\n";

__END__
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In your code, you need to declare %HoH before you reference it. For example:

my %HoH;
%HoH = (
  yadda1 => {
     key1 => "value1",
     key2 => &GetValue, # returns date string
     key3 => &Compare($var1,$HoH{yadda1}{key2}),
  },
  yadda2 => {
     key1 => "value1",
     key2 => &GetValue, # returns date string
     key3 => &Compare($var1,$HoH{yadda2}{key2}),
  },
);
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That will avoid the warning from strict, but it doesn't actually solve the problem. When you assign to a variable, if you refer to that same variable on the RHS of the assignment, you will get the old value of the variable. This is a lot like what happens with my:

my %HoH = ( key1 => 'first' );
%HoH = (
  key1 => 'second',
  key2 => $HoH{key1},
);
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$HoH{key2} will be 'first', because that was the value of $HoH{key1} when the RHS of the assignment was evaluated.

I would suggest you do something like this:

my $date_string = &GetValue;
my $comparison = &Compare($var1, $date_string);
%HoH = (
  yadda1 => {
     key1 => "value1",
     key2 => $date_string,
     key3 => $comparison,
  },
  yadda2 => {
     key1 => "value1",
     key2 => $date_string
     key3 => $comparison,
  },
);
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