I know this is a common problem, but I can't seem to find the solution anywhere. In my last question [complicated date functions - comparing, subtracting I needed to compare timestamps to get an accurate date for some Cisco logs.

The best I can come up with (since the dates don't actually feature the year) is in the format
 Mar 1 2013 00:03:55:
from
 Mar 1 00:03:55:

But when I ran some tests, strtotime is converting this date as 
 Jan 1970
Using
 print date("M Y", strtotime($c\_log))."\n";

Am I going to have to reformat it into a date it can understand? I don't appear to have the DateTime function. What's the simplest way?