time format in logfiles (I miss the year)

at the moment I parse huge logfiles like /var/log/messages and I am suprised that the date string doesn't include the year in the timestamp. can I configure the logfile format to include the year number ? thank you best regards marcel -- Marcel Lanz http://www.ds9.ch/lanz/ [EMAIL PROT

please help if you can ...

tion if also possible with the hurd for people using several os's for development reasons. Thanks ( in advanace/I'm trying to understand the faqs/howto explanations) .. Jonathan Larsen-Rask Lanz (web-nicname) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>