Set macOS dark mode at sunset. If you have Alfred installed, the dark theme will also be set.

This shell script gets the sunrise and sunset times from Night Shift and automates the setting up of two user launch agents for sunrise and sunset, which then take over running the script thereafter. If your mac was asleep/off during the solar times, launchd will run the script when you're next logged in!

$ ./darkmode.sh

Compatible with macOS Mojave Dark Mode. Press OK to the security dialogs to allow control to System Events that appear when first running the script.

Night Shift requires Wifi and "Setting Timezone" enabled in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Location Services > System Services > Details.

If your Mac does not support Night Shift, please use the previous version 1.7.2 which uses the Yahoo Weather API.

If you have a custom Alfred theme, you can change the name of the theme in the darkMode function. Change the second quote in the osascript commands.

A log file is stored in ~/Library/Logs which logs solar time changes and script errors.

To uninstall: $ ./darkmode.sh /u