Correct Time Stamp in Source Monitor ?

I am viewing MTS files in the Source Monitor (CS5) and I can't figure out what the 'time' is telling me. If I open the first file (00000.mts) the beginning time is 13:39:09:10. I would have thought it would be 0 or something. . . It's not the time I shot the video (the time is set - correctly - on the camera).
So, what is it? What I want it to be is zero because in finding a part of a clip, what I have is the minutes/seconds that the part starts into the clip. In other words, the part I want starts at 11:23 in file 0007. Because clip 0007 starts at 14:23:53:25 (very odd that it starts on frame 25) I have to do math to figure out where to go in 0007 to find what I want. It hurts.
So, what is that number trying to tell me?

It is Timecode, the Patron Saint of Video Production. Those numbers are absolute references to individual frames in a recorded video. Think of them as "addresses" to a particular frames. Most people actually want timecode
What it sounds like is you are looking for relative references to the beginning of a clip, e.g. 1 minutes 20 seconds in. Is this correct? If so, you can pretty quickly figure out the in and out point in your timecoded clip based on your relative references.
If you use the numeric keypad, you can press the "+" or "-" to move to a relative time. Let's say you want to start at 1 minute, 20 seconds into a clip. Load the clip into the Source Monitor, make sure the CTI is parked on the first frame, and type (without quote) "+1.20.0". You're telling Premiere to advance (that's the plus sign) 1 minute, 20 seconds, and 0 frames. When you hit Enter, the CTI will jump ahead that duration. Mark your in point, and repeat for the out point. If you know how long the duration of the selection is to be, you can just do that, e.g. 30 second or "+30.0", or you can return to the first frame and type in the relative time of the out point based on your notes.
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