how to show year in single post – content date

I’m using the blue zinfandale theme and would like to have the year included on the littel date.gif that currently only shows month and date.

the relevant line in index.php says :

<div id=”contentdate”>

<h3><?php the_time(‘M’); ?></h3>

<h4><?php the_time(‘j’); ?></h4>

</div>

how would I get it to show the year as well? thanks