Currently the game clock runs at about 2x real time (I *think*). At some point after sundown, the game clock skips ahead, taking out a large chunk of nighttime hours. We experience a little bit of real darkness (with full moonlight), and recognizing the effort Hitech went through to code actual stars patterns in correct locations that actually move with time, I'm OK with that. There may be people who love night bombing raids or try to move GVs into position under cover of darkness.
But I think it might help if during game clock time 10am - 2pm, the game clock was slowed to 1x real time, to give us more actually daylight fighting time.