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What's on the Otherside?

The seventh crate has a complicated control panel and a list of timestamps. How do you open it?

08:04.00 December 5, 2011

11:00.00 July 6, 2009

05:04.00 June 5, 2002

03:06.04 September 6, 2012

09:06.00 December 13, 2008

06:10.00 October 2, 2009

Scientists had opened 6 different crates giving 6 different answer.

Puzzle	Answer
Theorized Mixed	RAIN
Not That Otherside	MERCILESS PREDATOR
Planting the Flag	HAWKINS
Shape Shifter	PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Environmental Changes	SAINT PAUL
Crossing the Road	MAYA ANGELOU

Using the title of "Otherside" as a clue, each of these previous 6 answers have an "other side" to them. The timestamps in the 6 given dates are a clue to the length of the answers needed from the other side answers. (ex: 08:04.00 means the final answer length is [8 4])

Original Answer	Time	Other Side Answer	Reason
MERCILESS PREDATOR	08:04.00	RECKLESS WAIF	MtG Card
SAINT PAUL	11:00.00	MINNEAPOLIS	Twin Cities
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD	05:04.00	SHORT LINE	Monopoly
HAWKINS	03:06.04	THE UPSIDE DOWN	Stranger Things
RAIN	09:06.00	PAPERBACK WRITER	Beatles LP
MAYA ANGELOU	06:10.00	GEORGE WASHINGTON	Quarter

Next, the date for each can be turned into a set of 3 numbers and used as extract value for these "other side" answers. (ex: December 5, 2011 can be converted to 12-5-11, indicating ot extract those letters from the otherside answer)

Other Side Answer	Date	Extract
RECKLESS WAIF	12 5 11	FLI
MINNEAPOLIS	7 6 9	PAL
SHORT LINE	6 5 2	LTH
THE UPSIDE DOWN	9 6 12	ESW
PAPERBACK WRITER	12 13 8	ITC
GEORGE WASHINGTON	10 2 9	HES

Reading the extracted letters gives the final answer of FLIP ALL THE SWITCHES.