First don't be active at night. The night has several penalties and there are beds to skip the night. It seems to be made to be avoided at night unless there is a specific reason.

However, this is a single game, so if you want to use a little cheat method and use an nvidia graphics card, please do a Google search for 'nvidia filter'. It provides a brightness control function that can be turned on and off with one hotkey. It's probably just what you want.