Date-only Custom Field format (not time)

Currently a date value that is imported assumes a time value (midnight?) and then converts that from my local time to UTC, so what is displayed in the field instead of say Jan 1/25 is Dec. 31/24 4PM. The ask is to add a date-only format option to custom fields so an imported value of Jan 1/25 is stored/displayed in Front as just that - Jan. 1/25. My workaround was to convert my dates to text and create a new Date Text field. The values now display beautifully, but I can't do any reporting based on dates / elapsed time etc because they are now text fields.