You don't understand the startdates?
Take, for example, 20090512.1900
Let me stick some spaces in some helpful places:
2009 05 12 . 19 00
That better?
20090512 means 12th May 2009, and 1900 is in 24-hour clock format, IE 7:00PM
Stardates in the Star Trek universe work in an entirely different way. Wikipedia has a good explanation on how Stardates work.
"Eight strangers find themselves waking up in a strange cube-shaped room with no recollection of how they came to be there. Soon discovering that they're in a strange fourth dimension where our laws of physics don't apply, they have to unravel the secrets of the "hypercube" in order to survive... "
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