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If the airplane light-sport aircraft is properly equipped, and the pilot has a private pilot rating, it can be flown at night. Also, if the airplane light-sport aircraft is properly equipped, and the pilot has a private pilot instrument rating, it can be flown in IFR conditions by instruments.
Well it depends on what kind of pilot you want to be, if you simply want to be a private pilot you could do it in a summer. But if you want to get your commercial rating with instrument rating and multi engine rating, then that will take longer, it just depends on how often you can fly.