Windows savefile causes to crash next open time

[Mike or Penny Novack]

>>>> If there's no such date in your data file the issue is not aninvalid date, but something else.
>>> If a date was the issue would the file open ok in linux but not in
>> Win?
>> Yes.
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>> For Windows the oldest acceptable date is 1970-01-01 while on linux that
>> is 1969-12-31.
Explanation ------ the "19691231" date is NOT a date. It's the zero 
value (uninitialized, zero in the date field). Linux assigns this a date 
(for displaying) as 19691231 and Windows is recognizing zero as  "no 
date there". They are differing on how "uninitialized field" is treated. 
It is a principle of programming, no guarantee that invalid will be 
treated in a predictable/consistent manner. The guarantee is that 
correct will give correct results but with incorrect all bets are off.

Michael D Novack