Hood and sim work at night loggable as night time?

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T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:

john smith wrote:
T o d d P a t t i s t wrote:
Do you land under the hood?

You do not land in IMC, either.
Either under the hood or in actual conditions, you fly a approach and
land visually.

True, but I think you're missing the point. His instructor
told him he couldn't log both night and simulated
instrument. You seemed to think that was inconsistent with
logging night landings. It's not. His instructor would
have no problem with his logging the night landing since he
wasn't under the hood when he landed. Logging night
landings is not inconsistent with either approach as far as
I can tell.

But isn't instrument flight independent of day or night?
Is not the logging of instrument flight, night flight and day flight
primarily for currency?