Convert string date to array format

[effex0r]

I am wondering how I would convert a string such as Jan 1 1980 12:00AM to an array like the following:
Array (
[m] => 1
[d] => 1
[Y] => 1980
)
The string above is just an example. In practise the month, date and year could be anything, but the time will always be 12:00AM. As the array shows I am not interested in keeping the time information, just in splitting the string to the correct array format.

Do you know how to do that? Is there a PHP function that would do such a thing?

thAnks.

[clamcrusher]

$months = array(
    'Jan' => 1,
    'Feb' => 2,
    // etc...
);
list ($m, $d, $y) = explode(' ', $foo);
$array = array('m' => $months[$m], 'd' => $d, 'y' => $y); 

edited.