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Default Excel 2007 export/import datetime

I have an xmlMap with a datetime field mapped to a listColumn, named "Time",
formatted as "[hh]:mm".
My app requires that the "Time" column be in the range "04:00" - "27:59" -
no date. Obviously, anything after midnight will have a date of 1/1/1900.

I export one workbook using this map to an xml file and the xml file says:
<Time1899-12-31T13:00:00.000</Time
or
<Time1900-01-01T02:00:00.000</Time
When I try to import the xml file into my vba workbook the 1899 date is an
invalid date, so it imports it as text.

My workaround is to make both of these workbooks use 1904 date system. I
know, bad idea. But, I am the only one using these 2 workbooks (at least
until I die or retire) and they don't reference other workbooks. So, I figure
I am relatively safe for the moment.

This works fine until I do listColumn("Time").find on a time greater than
23:59. VBA doesn't recognize anything after "23:59" as a valid date, so I
have to subtract 24 from the string and then do a DateAdd("d",1,time)
function. Unfortunately, DateAdd doesn't know that my workbook is using the
1904 date system, so I have had to create my own AddADay function.
This all works, but I hate kludgy workarounds. So, I continue to search for
a better answer.