Have you tried just parsing the date into number and pass them into a client component to be converted back to the Date object

Ah btw as a tip, if you arent already doing this and are going to be storing dates in database: convert them into the exact time in UTC and then store them as a string

No, that's what I'm asking. I don't want to have to re-deserialize every object with date fields in every component that needs the server data

Postgres has a DateTime column, no need for string conversion

So does Mysql. I was just adding that you should be careful just in case cause on some timezones, if you dont do that you are gonna end up with the wrong date. Store them as DateTime but just make sure its converting it correctly.