Game keeps freezing at sunset?

I updated minecraft to 1.18.30 and ever since then, anytime it hits sunset in game, my game freezes and I have to close the program. It's really annoying and basically makes the game unplayable. I'm pretty sure it happens at sunset because when I reload my game, it's sunset in game. Idk what to do, I really wanna play. The world was created before this update and I haven't tried it on a world created after the update