The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
sunlight inhibits the pineal, it prevents it from releasing melatonin, darkness allows the pineal to release melatonin, so the pineal is not the gland or the organ of sunlight, it is the gland of darkness, in fact, melatonin can be thought of as a sleepiness signal that's correlated with darkness
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Melatonin is a hormone secreted from the pineal in direct relationship to how much darkness you are in. Not emotional darkness. But light suppresses melatonin.
Because light suppresses melatonin. Sunlight inhibits the pineal. It prevents it from releasing melatonin. Darkness allows the pineal to release melatonin.
Light seen by your eyes inhibits, meaning it reduces the amount of a hormone released in your brain called melatonin.