in reply to utime for symbolic links
My guess is that touch -h is using the lutimes(3) system call (where available) which a quick ripgrep through the perl source doesn't show any reference to. You theoretically could wrap it directly yourself with Inline::C but I don't think you're otherwise going to have luck directly from perl.
Edit: derp, wrong man section fixed
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