You don't understand the startdates?
Take, for example, 19991210.0921
Let me stick some spaces in some helpful places:
1999 12 10 . 09 21
That better?
19991210 means 10th December 1999, and 0921 is in 24-hour clock format, IE 9:21AM
Stardates in the Star Trek universe work in an entirely different way. Wikipedia has a good explanation on how Stardates work.