According to POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?, the only reason you appear to need POSIX is for the strftime function. Well, one of my favorite date/time modules, Time::Piece, has a strftime function as well:

use Time::Piece;

print localtime->strftime('%Y%m%d.%H%M%S');
print localtime->strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S');
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jeffa

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