Calculate local sunset time and switch Windows theme accordingly

toggle-windows-theme.ps1

# Calculate local sunset time and set Windows theme to "dark" if it's past sunset time or "light" if it's before sunset time
# Author: Armen Michaeli <[email protected]>

# May be run on a schedule (e.g. every 15 minutes) or manually.

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Device

$gcw = New-Object System.Device.Location.GeoCoordinateWatcher

$gcw.Start()

$date = Get-Date
$DaysInYear = if ($date.Year % 4) { 366 } else { 365 }
$timezone = Get-TimeZone

# Solar math largely derived from http://gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/solareqns.PDF et al

$gamma = (2 * [Math]::PI / $DaysInYear) * ($date.DayOfYear - 1 + ($date.Hour - 12) / 24)

function DegToRad($deg) {
    return $deg * [Math]::PI / 180;
}

function RadToDeg($rad) {
    return $rad * 180 / [Math]::PI;
}

$eqtime = 229.18 * (0.000075 + 0.001868 * [Math]::Cos($gamma) - 0.032077 * [Math]::Sin($gamma) - 0.014615 * [Math]::Cos(2 * $gamma) - 0.040849 * [Math]::Sin(2 * $gamma))

$decl = 0.006918 - 0.399912 * [Math]::Cos($gamma) + 0.070257 * [Math]::Sin($gamma) - 0.006758 * [Math]::Cos(2 * $gamma) + 0.000907 * [Math]::Sin(2 * $gamma) - 0.002697 * [Math]::Cos(3 * $gamma) + 0.00148 * [Math]::Sin(3 * $gamma)

While($gcw.Status -ne "Ready") {
    Start-Sleep 1
}

$latitude = DegToRad($gcw.Position.Location.Latitude)
$longitude = DegToRad($gcw.Position.Location.Longitude)

$zenith = DegToRad(90.833)

$ha = [Math]::Acos([Math]::Cos($zenith) / ([Math]::Cos($latitude) * [Math]::Cos($decl)) - [Math]::Tan($latitude) * [Math]::Tan($decl))

$sunrise = (Get-Date "00:00Z").AddMinutes(720 - (4 * (RadToDeg($longitude + $ha))) - $eqtime)
$sunset = (Get-Date "00:00Z").AddMinutes(720 - (4 * (RadToDeg($longitude - $ha))) - $eqtime)

function ResetTheme($IsLightTheme) {
    @("SystemUsesLightTheme", "AppsUseLightTheme") | % { Set-ItemProperty -Path HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize -Name $_ $IsLightTheme }
}

ResetTheme($date.Hour -ge $sunrise.Hour -and $date.Hour -lt $sunset.Hour)