I'm not sure what you think you are "seeing" in the Immediate window that tells you any more than just printing the parameter values passed. It comes down to a simple difference:

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Those screwy habits people pick up from parroting hoary old script snippets to each other means we see this very same thread repeat itself here over and over and over again. Date values are not String values. Period. And we use DTPickers so we don't have to go though the very error-prone gyrations you seem to prefer... probably out of habit.