Why bother with a module when stat is available?

use strict;
use warnings;

my ($path, $cutoff, $handle, $file, $c);

$path = '/var/opt/xim/syslogs/';
$cutoff = time() - 3600*12;    ### 12 hours ago
$c = 0;

### Fail if you don't have read permimssions
opendir ($handle, $path) || die;

while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
    ### File name must start with pattern
    next if $file !~ /^Syslogd/;
    
    ### Check modified time in seconds since epoch
    next if (stat $file)[9] > $cutoff;

    ### Error if you don't have write permissions
    if (unlink "$path$file") {
        print "$file removed.\n";
        $c++;
    }
    else {
        print "$file could not be removed.\n";
    }
}
print "$c total files removed.\n";

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