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This makes as_epi_archive convert midnight UTC POSIXct datetime versions into dates, as this seems a fairly uncontroversial conversion and it seems there is not a settled path forward on API/epidatr handling of these coming out of epidata_archive().

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• Resolves Convert dates represented as midnight-UTC datetimes back to dates in constructors #752

[JavierMtzRdz]

Thanks for adding this. It seems like the right thing to do while the cast-api change is being resolved. For reference, this is the cast-api PR that keeps the date consistent across every zone from UTC-12 to UTC+11 https://github.com/cmu-delphi/cast-api/pull/134