Doing it that way got me an undefined data dump from result, and an error for uninitialized value when trying to print $result directly. Ithink there is something wrong with the hash reference being returned in $value, I'm just not sure how to fix it.

Edit: I was right about the hash being incorrect, it seems I was grabbing the incorrect Object ID from the MIB. It needed as trailing 0 off of the the syscurrentDate object I was trying to take. Thanks for all your help in figuring this out.