in reply to Tips for elegance

Others already suggested some cleanup for your regex, but I'd suggest to comment the regex a bit using the x modifier (starting from GrandFather's version):
m< ( # Start of capture #1 [A-Z][a-z]{2} # Month name \s \d{2} # Day \s \d{2}:\d{2} # Hour:Minutes ) # End of capture #1 \s (/.+\.Z) # Capture #2: File name >x; # End of regex, note 'x' modifier
Of course the actual indentation and commenting style is at your will.

Flavio
perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf

Don't fool yourself.