in reply to optimize the code

You'd make helping you a lot easier if you would also post

  1. half a dozen lines of the file;
  2. a brief description of the purpose of the program.
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Re^2: optimize the code
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 24, 2010 at 11:13 UTC 
    66.249.65.27    -       -       [21/Jun/2010:08:00:00   +0000]  GET - 
+   -    -
66.250.65.27    -       -       [21/Jun/2010:08:00:00   +0000]  GET - 
+   -    -
66.244.65.27    -       -       [21/Jun/2010:08:00:00   +0000]  GET - 
+   -    -

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    In input file,4th column was GMT time. So this was converted to PST time, and if the date matches, 3 day ago date format in the 4th coulmn, only then it was written to the output file
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