awk statement to find events from a specific date

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I have a script which archives log file events which are 90-days old. Script works fine but I wanted some input on one aspect of this script. My nawk statement, bolded below, that removes events 90-days prior from today, I need it to find anything 90-days or older. The log file date pattern looks like this 03-29-2010

#!/bin/sh
LOG=tool.log
# Script will compress and archive tool log files older than 90-days
# Perl script to identify the date 90 days prior from today
  date=`perl <<'EOF'
  @T=localtime(time-86400 * 89);printf("%02d-%02d-%02d\n",$T[4]+1,$T[3],$T[5]+1900);
  EOF`
# Next statement will add logs 90-days old in command_archive.gz file
  nawk 'BEGIN {FS="\n"}{RS="#"}{ORS="#"}{if ($2 ~ /^'$date'/) print $0;}' $LOG > archive.temp
  gzip -c archive.temp >> command_archive.gz
# Next statement will remove logs 90-days old from the tool.log file
  nawk 'BEGIN {FS="\n"}{RS="#"}{ORS="#"}{if ($2 !~ /^'$date'/) print $0;}' $LOG > tmp_tool.log
  cp tmp_tool.log $LOG