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I never tracked the underlying report data that closely, but with Equifax and an ancient tax lien, it appeared to come off beginning of month but I have a non-trivially busy report around that time so it could've been awkward.
It would make sense as it's month/year calculated anyway to do it that way from a backend software perspective. Needlessly complicated and confusing otherwise.