AME Stitched clips strips time code

Shooting on P2 AVC-Intra 50 - using time of day time code (news  - camera starts and stops and has discontinuous time code).

When STITCHING clips together,  lose all original time code - Stitched file begins at 0 - and continues on.

Is there a way to preserve original time code in AME 2017 & beyond - and create a single file, i.e. stitch clips together.

Also read hat PREMIERE has stitched clip feature, but I cannot find that.