How to deal with user input of dates using ISODate stored to Mongo db?

SOLVED!:
thanks to the first half of this post:

which explains my exact issue with the shift, I learned to use moment.utc(date) instead of moment(date) to format my dates and now it shows correctly.

Template.registerHelper(“mdy”, function (date) {
if (date) {
return moment.utc(date).format(‘MM/DD/YYYY’);
}
});