In my experience it doesn't seem to bother my boy by bringing him out during the day. It just seems like when the lights are out and its dark thats when he starts cruising around his tank and taking a poop and stuff. I'll get up in the middle of the night and lean in close to check a temp and he will pop his up and scare the bejjezzus outta me!
In order to pull this off you would need the room to be really dark, I think red lights would be OK, or just some really low wattage bulb.

As far as the snake believing its night time... I dont know, I have heard people on here mention that just as you know when your in your house that the sun has gone down, so would the snake.

Make a documentary about it and let us know!