And the reason I didn't try'd it is because the object I want in the configuration file is only gonna work as an object and not as plain text.

And that is where you are wrong.

Try this:

use strict;
use YAML;
use YAML::Dumper;
use YAML::Loader;

use DateTime;

my $dt = DateTime->new(
    year   => 1964,
    month  => 10,
    day    => 16,
    hour   => 16,
    minute => 12,
    second => 47,
    nanosecond => 500000000,
    time_zone => 'Asia/Taipei',
);

my $dumper = YAML::Dumper->new;
my $stream =  $dumper->dump($dt);

my $loader = YAML::Loader->new;
my $new_dt = $loader->load($stream);

print $new_dt->ymd;
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Output:

1964-10-16
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Proving that you get a full fledged object back when you load the YAML stream.