Hello esteemed monks. Two questions about using Time::Piece which I've not been able to understand from the documentation page.

I have a number of date/time strings I want to sort and compare to localtime.

use Time::Piece;
use Time::Seconds;
use strict;

my $dateformat = "%H:%M:%S, %m/%d/%Y";

my $date1 = "11:56:41, 09/14/2022";
my $date2 = "11:22:41, 09/16/2022";
my $date3 = "11:20:41, 09/13/2022";

$date1 = Time::Piece->strptime($date1, $dateformat);
$date2 = Time::Piece->strptime($date2, $dateformat);
$date3 = Time::Piece->strptime($date3, $dateformat);


my(@ds) = ($date1,$date2,$date3);

my(@sorted) = sort(@ds);

foreach my $dt (@sorted){
    print $dt, $/;
}

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This results in: 

Fri Sep 16 11:22:41 2022
Tue Sep 13 11:20:41 2022
Wed Sep 14 11:56:41 2022

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Question 1: why is it sorting the future date at the top of the list?

Question 2: is using Time::Piece->(strptime) the best way to create objects for each of my variables? I didn't see any other way to do that in the doc.

Thank you for any help.

In reply to Time::Piece puzzlement by slugger415

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