Generally I try to eat more during the day when my digestion is stronger and then have just a light snack after dinner, usually soy milk (protein fortified) and some applesauce, maybe a few almonds.
Don't worry too much about all those magazines that tell you not to eat after 6 or whatever because you "won't burn it off and it will be stored as fat." Your body needs energy all the time. When you're sleeping, your body still needs energy, albeit a lot less. Still, it's not like your stomach is going to be full all night just converting it into fat. Otherwise you'd wake up in the morning full and satiated. If you're like most folks, you wake up hungry, which means your body is on the verge of going into starvation mode and heading towards your muscle stores for energy! (Which, obviously, is what you *don't* want.)
I don't stop eating at a specific time during the day at all - for my IBS it's necessary for me to keep my stomach full at all times, so I'm particularly careful around bedtime and in the morning when my stomach needs to be empty for so long when I'm sleeping.
Have a small snack between dinner and bedtime that has SF and some protein and you should be fine. As long as you're eating healthy, clean food, more calories than you're burning, and a good amount of protein - and are training hard and heavy - go with whatever your body tells you is right. There are so many guidelines you could listen to and magazine articles you could read but most of it is just designed to sell magazines. It's really pretty simple and there are no secrets after a certain point 
Keep in mind that when your gaining weight ("bulking up" as it gets called) you're going to gain *some* fat. The aim is to gain the most amount of muscle with the least amount of fat. Have you had your body fat % measured? This is a good way to see if you're gaining fat or muscle. You can get it done professionally at a gym (best most accurate way) or there are lots of places you can do it online for free (such as Body Tracker). However don't take the *numbers* that site will give you too seriously - what you're looking at mostly is the changes in the number. So take it today and then take it a week from now and then a week from then etc. and see if you're getting any changes. It's a much better way to monitor that weight because if you're just stepping on the scale you can't be totally sure if the weight you're gaining is fat or muslce. A quick glance in the mirror is a pretty good indicator too.
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