Crossing into my home country on a sleeper train with an Interrail Global Pass. Which day should be marked as the inbound trip day?

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Its day 1

The inbound/outbound journey upgrades a travel day on a flex pass to also allow you to use that travel day in the home country. You can't have an inbound/outbound without a travel day - but you only need to board trains on a travel day.

If you are using a mobile pass the inbound/outbound journey calculation is handled automatically for you in this manner.

It is sort of the opposite of your case but interrail have an example on their website - https://www.interrail.eu/en/interrail-passes/interrail-mobile-pass/mobile-pass-faq/how-can-i-travel-back-home-by-night-train - where someone does need to catch a train in their home country after traveling into the country on an overnight sleeper. As you'd expect this needs 2 travel days but note that you also need to split the overnight train journey into 2 separate steps covering the section inside & outside your home country. This is important as if this step is not completed the inbound journey would be assigned to the first day and you'd then be unable to catch the second train in your home country (even with a spare travel day) as your inbound journey would already have been used and assigned to the day that the overnight train departed.

One thing to be aware of with the rules about overnight train is that you can't travel beyond the final validity of your pass. So if you activate a travel day on the last possible day you can do so you then do have to completely finish by midnight - and cannot stay onboard like normal.

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