'Why can't Date accept a string as input in Typescript?

In my typescript compilation, this line is getting an error: const fakeDate = new Date("2018-07-18T13:28:59Z")

The error is ERROR TS2322: Type '~lib/string/String' is not assignable to type 'i64'..

My tsconfig.json is:

{
    "compilerOptions": {
      "target": "es2018",
      "module": "commonjs",
      "strict": true,
      "esModuleInterop": true,
      "outDir": "dist",
      "noImplicitAny": false
    },
    "include": ["./scripts", "./test"],
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true
  }

Any idea what's up? I suspect it's some typescript config, but unsure what.

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