Counting Days in Date/Time Format

I am trying to count the number of orders written per day. I used the following formula on another sheet and it worked fine, however on this one, A8 is a date only, and F2:F2000 is a date and a time. I tried reformating the cell for date only, and it displays only the date, however, the time information is still stored, and I can't get it to do the count. Is there a way to count the date regardless of the time?

=COUNTIF('ACT Legacy'!$F$2:$F$2000,Stats!A8)