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It’s a common thing, since sentences that are a year or less aren’t entitled to certain credits in some places (“good time” credit in the US federal system). Since this is a federal case, that is probably the reason.

Defense counsel will sometimes even ask for the extra day, since this credit will reduce the actual time served.

http://federaldefendersny.org/information-for-client-and-fam...

I think a year is usually a cutoff for sentencing rules.

For instance, in many places if you serve less than a year you are places in jail, rather than prison. (It is distinctly better to be in prison rather than jail in most cases.) I know in my State there are a lot of other rules that are different if your sentence is over a year or not, but I don't know what rules would be applicable in this case.

That extra day makes a huge difference.

In what way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_and_a_day_rule#As_a_sente...