It will rise again. You can check the time in the debug screen: press \ (back slash). I too always have a love/hate relationship with day/night cycles in games. I'll think about maybe adding an option to skip night-time.
Rather than straight-up skip nighttime, perhaps a sleep mode that the player can use to rest for a selected number of hours would be good. That way too, anyone who wants to be a night owl can do so and skip the day instead.
