From 9c2a8f7c8c46e2c251ff9a4c5e8b97ef903ba0cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Laboure <vincent.laboure@inl.gov>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 11:53:23 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] The default time for an app should not be 0 (or problems with
 recovering as the start time is not explicitly set by the Transient
 executioner) #15802

---
 framework/src/base/MooseApp.C | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/framework/src/base/MooseApp.C b/framework/src/base/MooseApp.C
index d66ccb72dcc2..4dc694262630 100644
--- a/framework/src/base/MooseApp.C
+++ b/framework/src/base/MooseApp.C
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ MooseApp::MooseApp(InputParameters parameters)
     _file_base_set_by_user(false),
     _output_position_set(false),
     _start_time_set(false),
-    _start_time(0.0),
+    _start_time(-std::numeric_limits<Real>::max()),
     _global_time_offset(0.0),
     _output_warehouse(*this),
     _input_parameter_warehouse(new InputParameterWarehouse()),