I can think of no usage for "in the day". It simply isn't said. If you want to indicate you did something while the sun was in the sky you would say, "in the daytime" or "during the day". We went to the zoo in the daytime and at night we got dinner. During the day we went to the zoo. If you want to combine the date and daytime constructs you ... More @Wikipedia
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