Or roll-out your own if you want, using localtime like so:
A

my $present_month = ( localtime() )[4] + 1;

print sprintf "current month: %d\nprevious month: %d\n", $present_mont
+h,
  $present_month - 1;

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A: UPDATE:
Obviously, this breaks when the current month is January, because the previous month will then be "0", which doesn't translate to month "12" as we wanted.
Please, use the tested module like Time::Piece and others as Loops and others had mentioned.
'Am sorry I missed that big time...
Loops++ for catching that.

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In reply to Re: get previous month in two digit number by 2teez
in thread get previous month in two digit number by Jim Wang

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