There seems to be no difference when I apply the Filter for less than or equal to as it only filters the dataset same as .lt
I have the dates 05/06/2018 i.e. 5th June 2018 and when I select 5th June 2018 in my Page Date Picker I get the values until the previous date i.e. 4th June 2018
On the other hand .ge is working fine and returning Dates which are equal to or greater than
Seems like the most common problem with this is keeping track of UTC versus local time zone. You can check what date/time using console.log() statements.