Erin Stellato shows us a few nuances to the way that Query Store handles dates internally:
Query Store retains query performance data at the plan level. This data is then broken out into intervals of time, determined by the INTERVAL_LENGTH_MINUTES setting. The time intervals are found in the sys.query_store_runtime_stats_interval system view, and the start_time and end_time columns are of the DATETIMEOFFSET data type. This means that the date is time-zone aware, and in Query Store the data is stored as UTC. Now why does all of this matter? Because handling dates in Query Store is important if you’re going to query the data directly.
Click through to see a query of what this looks like, as well as a few tips on parsing the data.