Welcome to the Make community!
Those variables look like a text string (type).
To convert them into date types, you can use the built-in function:
- parseDate
parseDate(text; format; [timezone])
This function may have also been covered in the Make Academy tutorials — refer to the Make Academy Course Overview to learn more.
Here’s an example of how you can use this function:
{{ parseDate(1.userStartDate; "YYYY-MM-DD") }}
(Special Make Markup: Copy-paste the above into the field, including start/end curly brackets for it to import as intended)
Hope this helps! If you are still having trouble, please provide more details.
— @samliew
P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!