diff --git a/src/schema.ts b/src/schema.ts
index 44002e6c..1cd837dd 100644
--- a/src/schema.ts
+++ b/src/schema.ts
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ export class Schema {
       return [+fieldSchema.stats.min, +fieldSchema.stats.max];
     } else if (fieldSchema.primitiveType === PrimitiveType.DATE) {
       // return [min, max] dates
-      domain = [fieldSchema.stats.min, fieldSchema.stats.max];
+      return [fieldSchema.stats.min, fieldSchema.stats.max];
     } else if (fieldSchema.primitiveType === PrimitiveType.INTEGER ||
         fieldSchema.primitiveType === PrimitiveType.NUMBER) {
       // coerce non-quantitative numerical data into number type
diff --git a/test/schema.test.ts b/test/schema.test.ts
index f76f7354..d8153280 100644
--- a/test/schema.test.ts
+++ b/test/schema.test.ts
@@ -535,8 +535,8 @@ describe('schema', () => {
     it('should return a date array containing correctly translated date types', () => {
       var domain: Date[] = domainSchema.domain({field: 'e', channel: Channel.X});
       assert.equal(domain.length, 2);
-      assert.equal(domain[0].getTime(), new Date('7/14/2016').getTime());
-      assert.equal(domain[1].getTime(), new Date('6/14/2016').getTime());
+      assert.equal(domain[0].getTime(), new Date('6/14/2016').getTime());
+      assert.equal(domain[1].getTime(), new Date('7/14/2016').getTime());
     });
   });