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Help with Converting Excel Times to R

I've usually had good luck with this, but something is not working well.  I have two datetimes in excel

7/20/21 13:30
7/20/21 13:40

And when I convert these to excel's normal storage schema, I get the following:

42935.5625
42935.56944

Just try to convert this to a POSIX class gives me issues.
[1] "1899-12-30 11:55:36 GMT" "1899-12-30 11:55:36 GMT"

As you can see, there is a world of difference here.  I've tried any number of solutions such as lubridate, etc and I get the same result
[1] "1899-12-30 11:55:36 UTC" "1899-12-30 11:55:36 UTC"

Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?


Shawn Way