Why does "x time()" have such a different value than "x $time"?

Because 25 seconds went by between the assignment to $time and the second call to time()?

I have no problem overridding time(). 

$ cat time.pl

use strict;
use warnings;

BEGIN {
  no warnings qw(redefine);
  *CORE::GLOBAL::time = sub { 4 };
}

my $time = time();

1;

$ perl -d time.pl

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.28
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help.

main::(time.pl:10):     my $time = time();

DB<1> n
main::(time.pl:12):     1;

DB<1> x $time
0  4

DB<2> x time()
0  4

DB<3> q

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In reply to Re: Where does time come from? CORE::GLOBAL:time no honored. by ikegami
in thread Where does time come from? CORE::GLOBAL:time no honored. by Anonymous Monk

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