I don't remember if this was a Bukkit thing or a previous version of MC, but there used to be a time that we could reset the day via sleeping if someone was AFK. Is that something that's possible in 1.14? I was able to do it the other night when Brad was on, but I assume that's because he's the Controller or something more powerful and ominous and he's not subject to the normal player laws.
[edit]: Just to be clear, the problem isn't people going AFK (everybody does that to grow farms and test contraptions), the problem is MC's rule that *everyone* has to sleep to invoke daylight. Just wondering if there's a workaround, that's all.