Conversion from Excel time to labview time

Hello all,
I want to convert the excel time stamp to labview time stamp. Can you all please help me how to do this ?
In my application labview time is 05-11-12 14:56:00 and its equivalent excel time representation is 41218.6222222222.
I tried this formula,
Labview time = 24*3600*(Excel time - 1460) but anwer is wrong.
Thanks.
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--Ranjeet

Ok, here's what I found. The conversion is: Time Stamp = 86400*(Excel Time - 1462). But here's the kicker: the timestamp is GMT. You have to add your time zone offset as well. I'm in the Eastern Time Zone, so I had to add 5 hours. I'm not sure what DST will do to this. I'm sure there's ways around it, I just don't have time to look into it more right now.
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