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Retirement tax questions
"I had an direct rollover of my Roth IRA to a Traditional IRA."
Not sure what you mean here. A Roth IRA is not permitted to be rolled over to a traditional IRA. Doing so creates an excess contribution to the traditional IRA to the extent that it exceeds the amount you are eligible to contribute to a traditional IRA for the year. Additionally, it would make no sense to take a distribution from a Roth IRA only to make a regular contribution to a traditional IRA unless the distribution from the Roth IRA was to correct an excess Roth IRA contribution, in which case it would not be a rollover.
The term "direct rollover" technically only applies to a rollover to or from an employer plan like a 401(k). There is no 60-day deadline to complete a direct rollover. Still, you are not permitted to do a rollover to a traditional IRA from a designated Roth account in an employer plan.
Perhaps what you did was a recharacterization, not a rollover. Again there is no deadline to complete the transfer. However, when doing a recharacterization from a Roth IRA to a traditional IRA the funds must generally leave the Roth IRA by the due date of the corresponding tax return, including extensions.