General :: Writing A Script That Compares Two Different Files?

how to match to find matches in two different files when comparing timestamps. The fields I'm wanting to match up are in the format:

Jul 26 09:33:02

I have tried reading the file line by line and using awk '{print $1,$2,$3}' which only gets and stores the timestamp in one of the files. I've been looking around and saw this example:

awk 'FNR==NR{!a[$3]++;next }{ b[$3]++ }
END{
for(i in a){
for(k in b){
if (a[i]==1 && i ~ k ) { print i }
}
}
}' $FILE $FILE2

Which sorta works but its way over my head at the moment. The two files can be found in your /var/log/syslog and /var/log/auth.log (using Ubuntu 11.04)