in reply to Why, when my object creates another object and passes it back, does it not work?

Try adding 
use strict;

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to the beginning and fixing the tyop it catches...

UPDATE
Actually it will catch multiple non-errors, and then it will notice that you were writing: 

$self{'date'}

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where you undoubtably wanted 
$self->{date}

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