Stardates Explained - 20010309.1136

You don't understand the startdates?

Take, for example, 20010309.1136

Let me stick some spaces in some helpful places:

2001 03 09 . 11 36

That better?

20010309 means 9th March 2001, and 1136 is in 24-hour clock format, IE 11:36AM

Stardates in the Star Trek universe work in an entirely different way. Wikipedia has a good explanation on how Stardates work.