Excel not properly comparing dates, despite same cell format

I have two date rows. Both are formatted as dates. When I do a logic test to see whether the two dates, excel is not recognizing them as the same.

Here is a screenshot of the cells:

This is to confirm that both cell rows are formatted as date:

This is to confirm that the equality check row is referencing the right cells:

I’m stumped. Does anyone have any idea what’s going on here? Thanks