This is less a question and more of a finding to report.
In 2016, File Geodb Open API treats date values "1901-01-01" as "19000101000000", but in 2021.2.5, the reader treats the same value as "000000". The effect is the record gets thrown out, despite the writer saying all features are written.
We've had to build in a StringReplacer to find all the "000000" to replace with the original date value.
Is this a bug?
Update:
Affects "1900-01-01" as well.