Mustache date expansion bug?

[bakman2]

I am rendering a template with mustache formatting.

format_date('{{{payload.0.OrderDate}}}')

payload.0.OrderDate comes from a database, format: 2024-01-11 11:59:32.903

However, after rendering the template, this is the result:
format_date('Tue Jan 02 2024 10:58:54 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)')

Why this is happening ?

[E1cid]

I would say that the date returned is a date object you can use Date.prototype.toLocaleString() - JavaScript | MDN
to format to local timedate string prior to template or see also in link.
example

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[Steve-Mcl]

@bakman2

Why this is happening

The value will be a date object.