What if you change the defer time from 00:00 to something later, like the earliest time you could complete it, or would want to see the actions.
If you change today’s item to be deferred until, say, 06:00 then all future copies of that task will retain that defer time.
You can also set the default defer time in preferences. This would affect the time when you set a task’s defer date with something like ‘tue’ or ‘tom’ (for Tuesday or Tomorrow).
Does that help?