those rough seas

I guess somehow, the idea of having a bare naked 2400 sitting out there all by its lonesome with no 2401 or anything to keep it company was hard to swallow on the one hand and, not being computer types, the idea of starting with 0000 was just as unpalatble. Besides, 2400 would be part of yesterday and 0000 part of tomorrow and the idea that one time could be part of two different days depending on how you referred to it left it hanging in the limbo of unacceptability.

I'm just telling how it was when I was in and on my ship.