compare errored out with ORA-01841 on target as shown in the *declt* log. (4296793)

Customer ran into ORA-01841 when running compare on one particular table as the following declt portion shows:

000: Notice: Object ID of "owner"."tablename" is 44656
000: Oracle Error 1841: ORA-01841: (full) year must be between -4713 and +9999, and not be 0

000: Error ORA-1841 calling OCIStmtExecute in de_repair_update (3753)
000: No further repairs will be applied
000: Error 1 calling de_repair_update in de_compare_client (1480)
000: Continuing to process so all the out-of-sync rows are reported
000: Error -1 calling de_compare_client (main,L2567)
Exiting