Fixed your code a little bit:

- use strict; !!!!!
- Improved Regex checking
- Dates changed to arrays, to make comparison easier
- Cluttered, nested if's replaced by "next if" or "next unless"
- Test data you provided was used (no external files)
- Please remove the $today[1]-- : That was to compensate for old data

Cheers! 

use strict;

my @today = get_cur_time();
$today[1]--; # Compensate for old data

### Defining Jobs

my @jobs = ("Allway Job");

### Defining Print Header

print "\n======================================\n";
print "\n  Homebrew Reporting Program\n\n";
print "        Today:  @today\n";
print "\n======================================\n\n";

### Opening Allway Sync Log File
#open(FH1,"C:\\Documents and Settings\\localadmin\\Application Data\\S
+ync App Settings\\_SYNCAPP\\default.log") 
#        || die "Cannot open file:$!\n";
### keep Log open while reading 

GETDATA:while(<DATA>){ #(<FH1>)) {
next unless  /Synchronizing started|Synchronizing finished|Summary/;
my @date= m|(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)|;

for my $i(0..$#today){
  next GETDATA if $date[$i]!=$today[$i];
}   
### 
foreach my $job (@jobs) {
    my $syncStartD = substr($_,1,9);
   my $syncStartT = substr($_,11,7);
    my $syncStartjobName = substr($_,20,120);
   my $filesProcessed = substr($_,21,44); 
      
   print $_,  "\t$syncStartD$syncStartT$syncStartjobName$filesProcesse
+d\n";

    };
};
### Subroutines for current date
sub get_cur_time  {
    my ($Day, $Month, $Year) = (localtime(time))[3..6];
    
    $Year   += 1900;
    #--Note - the "sprintf"s are no longer necessary ...
    $Month  = sprintf '%02d', $Month + 1;
    $Day    = sprintf '%02d', $Day;
    return   ($Month,$Day,$Year);
};
__DATA__

[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Synchronizing started, job: "Allway Job"
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Analyzing finished, job: "Allway Job"
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Deleting: "C:\test\_SYNCAPP\temp" ...
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Deleting: "c:\test\_SYNCAPP\temp" ...
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Preparing metadata ...
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Flushing drive "\\.\C:" buffers ...
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Writing File: C:\test\_SYNCAPP\metadata.xml" ...
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Writing File: "c:\test\_SYNCAPP\metadata.xml" ...
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Flushing drive "\\.\C:" buffers ...
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Flushing drive "\\.\c:" buffers ...
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Synchronizing finished, job: "Allway Job"
[3/21/2008 12:48 PM] Summary: Files processed: 18; Files copied: 0; By
+tes processed: 180,372; Bytes copied: 0.

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