time_t can not represent date before 1970-01-01 and after 2038-02-19?

From:

rockdale <rockdale.green@gmail.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.language

Date:

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:12:19 -0800 (PST)

Message-ID:

<e2e5c7a1-1552-4b83-856e-4c7fd7559a41@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>

I am using CDateTimeCtrl to let my users choose their Date of Birth. I
read their DOB from an XML file into a string and then try to convert
it to time_t /CTime to set the CDateTimeCtrl date. SO I wrote a
function to convert string into time_t. (see following)

But most of them born before 1970, my function can not handle those
dates like '1906-01-01 00:00:00'.

does this mean I can not use CDateTimeCtrl for date time pick?

Is there a better way to represent a date before 1970.
-----------------------------------
time_t CUtil::StringToTimestamp(const char* strDate)
{
  struct tm timeStruct;
  sscanf(LPCSTR(strDate), "%4d-%2d-%2d %2d:%2d:%2d",
          &timeStruct.tm_year, &timeStruct.tm_mon,
&timeStruct.tm_mday,
          &timeStruct.tm_hour, &timeStruct.tm_min, &timeStruct.tm_sec);
  //// adjust the tm structure
  timeStruct.tm_mon--;
  timeStruct.tm_year -= 1900;

  //// do not know if standard or daylight savings time is in effect
  timeStruct.tm_isdst = -1;
  timeStruct.tm_wday = 0;
  timeStruct.tm_yday = 0;

  return static_cast<time_t>(mktime(&timeStruct));
}
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thanks
-rockdale