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Dates created before useFakeTimers aren't seen as instanceof Date anymore #504

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What did you expect to happen?

Date object that have been created before fakeTimer takes actions should still be instanceof Date, as it used to be in previous versions

What actually happens

How to reproduce

npm install sinon@19

 import sinon from "sinon";


 // defined before useFakeTimers
 const minDate = new Date(Date.UTC(1601, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0));
 console.log("minDate instanceof Date (before)", minDate instanceof Date);
 const clock = sinon.useFakeTimers();
 const d = new Date();
 console.log("instanceof Date", d instanceof Date);

 console.log("minDate instanceof Date (after) : should be true but is : ", minDate instanceof Date);

 clock.restore();
// without using sinon
import FakeTimers from "@sinonjs/fake-timers";

// emulating what sinonjs is doing:
function createClock(config, globalCtx) {
    let FakeTimersCtx = FakeTimers;
    if (globalCtx !== null && typeof globalCtx === "object") {
        FakeTimersCtx = FakeTimers.withGlobal(globalCtx);
    }
    const clock = FakeTimersCtx.install(config);
    clock.restore = clock.uninstall;
    return clock;
}

 // defined before useFakeTimers
 const minDate = new Date(Date.UTC(1601, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0));
 console.log("minDate instanceof Date (before)", minDate instanceof Date);
 
var clock = createClock();
 const d = new Date();
 console.log("instanceof Date", d instanceof Date);

 console.log("minDate instanceof Date (after) : should be true but is : ", minDate instanceof Date);

 clock.restore();

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