Can provide some evidence
What I’m thinking is happening; MSFS2024 is logging flight time as UTC and not local time (notice how for the most recent flight, local time is ~15:00 EDT but 20:00 UTC)
Even though local sunset is ~16:15 EDT, the sim logged 3 landings as ‘night time landings’ (not sure why it didn’t log 3 take-offs; 1 from CYJN, and 1 from CYHU, the other take-off was after an off-field landing, practicing a loss of power condition)
edit: realized I denoted EDT and not EST (Corrected for the 1 hr difference)