I do not understand what this sentence is saying in

I do not understand what this sentence is saying in English. “Am Vorabend war es ja spät geworden.”

@ alchemist
Wo liegt das Problem?

http://www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/uebersetzung/es+ist+spät+geworden.html

Translate the sentence to English…On the evening before it had become late. Does not seem correct.

My problem is probably resulting from the word Vorabend. I thought this meant the previous evening and the sentence that follow it seems to me to be referring to “today’s events”. Where am I going wrong?

yes you are right! The following sentences refer to ‘today’s’ events:

----> yesterday evening it got late, and today we are doing such and such…

Your translation below is absolutely correct! (apart from the missing ‘ja’, which basically confirms the before-said in the German sentence (es war (ja) spaet geworden). No idea how to translate that into English.

Vielen Dank! Du bist sehr hilfreich!