
You don't understand the startdates?
Take, for example, 20091017.2200
Let me stick some spaces in some helpful places:
2009 10 17 . 22 00
That better?
20091017 means 17th October 2009, and 2200 is in 24-hour clock format, IE 10:00PM
Stardates in the Star Trek universe work in an entirely different way. Wikipedia has a good explanation on how Stardates work.