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Converting `Schema.DateTimeUtc` to a Human-Readable String

Hey all. Very green beginner here. Not sure if I should post on here or on the schema channel, but that channel seems to be for more advanced discussion.
I have a variable, let's call it d, that was defined as Schema.DateTimeUtc (actually of type Utc) that I'm trying to transform into a human-readable label. Something like:
const label = d.toLocaleDateString("en-US", {
  month: "short",
  year: "numeric",
});

If d were of type Date. I can't directly convert it into a Date, the only way I found so far is to get the epochMillis, use that to create a Date, which is terrible as it doesn't have any timezone info, and then convert that into a nice string. How can I achieve that in a way that doesn't make me want to cry?
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