I didn't schedule it at night. It was scheduled during the afternoon, but the examiner was running late from a check ride prior to mine so we weren't able to take off until after sunset. I told her I didn't mind rescheduling (and that I was not night current), but the examiner lives 3hrs away so she really wanted to get it done. Also, it was one of the very few good vfr days during the winter we had for over a month.

Good point on the cockpit environment for night flight. The seminole I flew was definitely not night friendly, and as I was not prepared to do the ride at night, I didn't have a headlamp. The cockpit lighting was horrible, most didn't work and I was barely able to see most of the instruments. I had to do the entire approach from memory as I was unable to see the chart. It wasn't too much of a problem as I had a 430 and done the approach dozens of times, just wasn't expecting it.