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I'm trying to do a simple assertion that the day of a `mm/dd/yyyy` string matches my desired `daydate` via: 
the `startDate` I'm passing in is just `11`
```TypeScript
getCustomDateStartDateInput()
        .invoke('val')
        .then((date) => {
            cy.log('Desired Date:\t' + startDate);
            console.log('Actual Start Date\t' + date);
            console.log(String(date).split('/')[1]);
            expect(String(date).split('/')[1]).to.equal(startDate);
        });```

For some reason the assertion in the command palette looks like this: