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You don't understand the startdates?
Take, for example, 20120131.2300
Let me stick some spaces in some helpful places:
2012 01 31 . 23 00
That better?
20120131 means 31st January 2012, and 2300 is in 24-hour clock format, IE 11:00PM
Stardates in the Star Trek universe work in an entirely different way. Wikipedia has a good explanation on how Stardates work.