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"XLConnect" packages; Excel dates read incorrectly

The MS Excel starting point was off by one day. R does not repeat that error. MS claims that their  error is justified by needing to copy the error made by Lotus123 and then because they wanted backward compatibility.

I'm not sure why the XLConnect package does not fix the error. They just use the integer from Excel and let R apply it correctly.