Simple date filter from store not working

[ericuldall]

I have a basic events structure with a start/end date and i'm trying to filter it in the store:

                return this.findEventsInStore({
                    query: {
                        $limit: this.pagination.perPage,
                        start: {
                            $gte: this.start
                        }
                    }
                });

this.start = Tue Feb 01 2022 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) as a Date object

current state for events in store:

{ "total": 1, "limit": 5, "skip": 0, "data": [ { "title": "Test Event", "description": "Testing...",  "start": "2022-02-25T01:30:00.000Z", "end": "2022-02-25T06:30:00.000Z"} ]

It will return all events in the store if I remove the start: { $gte } filter, however when filtering by start date it returns and empy result set. Any ideas?