This addressee a bug where ardour 6 was able to write negative
duration `length="-1"` `length-beats="-3.3650500597559585e-05"`
Ideally timecnt_t::string_to should check for invalid,
negative, duration. But this also catches a more generic case.
```
exception at str.substr (1)
#3 Temporal::timepos_t::string_to (this=0x7fffffff7bb0, str="") at libs/temporal/timeline.cc:904
#4 Temporal::timecnt_t::string_to (this=0x7fffffff7ba0, str="-2") at libs/temporal/timeline.cc:294
#5 PBD::string_to<Temporal::timecnt_t> (str="-2") at libs/ardour/ardour/types_convert.h:131
```