After we did the upgrade of a Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8, a date field which had been taking only the date portion, and no time portion, was now configured to take both the date and the time. Moreover, the migration wasn't working.
We changed the configuration from datetime to date
Here's the relevant part of the diff for config/default/field.storage.node.field_pub_date.yml
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