day tasks are not being set properly

const [tasks, setTasks] = useState([]);

     useEffect(() => {
      const userTasks = async () => {
        if (auth && loginStatusID) {
          const todaysTask = localStorage.getItem("TodaysTasks");
  
          console.log(todaysTask);
  
          if (todaysTask !== null) {
              const daytask = JSON.parse(todaysTask);
              setTasks([daytask]);

          } else {
            await Axios.get(
              `http://localhost:3001/tasks/podoDB/getTask?userID=${loginStatusID}`
            )
              .then((response) => {
                setTasks(response.data);
              })
              .catch((error) => {
                console.error("Error Getting task:", error);
               });
           }
          }
        } 

       userTasks()
      }, [auth, loginStatusID]);

     useEffect(() => {
      console.log(tasks);
     }, [tasks]);

Tried

setState(prevState => ({ ...prevState, daytask}));

returns:
[{“taskID”:4012,”task”:”hjfksdj”,”date”:”2024-04-12T00:00:00.000Z”,”descrip”:”mw,mds”},{“taskID”:4014,”task”:”jvkfndklfew”,”date”:”2024-04-12T00:00:00.000Z”,”descrip”:”edwre”},{“taskID”:4011,”task”:”jkfner”,”date”:”2024-04-19T00:00:00.000Z”,”descrip”:”refrwefr”},{“taskID”:4013,”task”:”sdjk”,”date”:”2024-04-25T00:00:00.000Z”,”descrip”:”sdkdk”}]
ToDoList.js:98 updated null

ToDoList.js:98 updated null should return the parsed object array