Stardates Explained - 20170325.1456

You don't understand the startdates?

Take, for example, 20170325.1456

Let me stick some spaces in some helpful places:

2017 03 25 . 14 56

That better?

20170325 means 25th March 2017, and 1456 is in 24-hour clock format, IE 2:56PM

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

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