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I like to conserve Namespace, so combining that with gam3's method:
my %T; # Store all TIME fields in a single hash named "T" @T{ qw(sec min hour mday mon year wday yday isdst) } = map({$_ < 10 ? '0' . $_ : ''.$_} localtime); print qq($_\t:$T{$_}\n) for sort keys %T; $T{year}+=1900; print qq($T{sec}, $T{min},$T{hour}, $T{day});

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