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Apple is Bringing Night Shift Mode To Its Desktop OS (macrumors.com)

Posted by msmash on from the upcoming-features dept.

Apple is bringing Night Shift, a feature aimed at changing the tone of the display to better suit the eyes at different time of the day, to its desktop operating system. From a report: macOS Sierra 10.12.4, seeded to developers this morning, introduces a major new feature: Night Shift for the Mac. Night Shift can be toggled on and off using the new Night Shift switch located in the Today section of the Notification Center.

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  1. Welcome to 2010, Apple by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now implement this in hardware with a light sensor instead of a switch the user has to push manually and you're almost as good as the notebook I just went and replaced with a newer model.

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  2. What would be even better would be... by tlambert · · Score: 3, Interesting

    What would be even better would be... links to medline/NIH/NEJM/Lancet papers indicating that the changing of colors is anything other than snake oil being manufactured by the people who brought you "Blue Blockers" sunglasses.

    "Blue Blockers: For when you turn 50, take up golf, and wear white polyester pants pulled up to your armpits".

    I found 15 medline articles on the idea -- all concluding that thecolor changes don't do dick. The one really reliable study -- the one on Navy pilots -- concluded that the color change *increased* alertness. Good luck getting to sleep more easily with *increased alertness*. Luckily, the same study also indicated that the effect was very short term.