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“Up and at em! We’re burning daylight!”

And it was still dark...

That's the thing though. Getting up at the crack of dawn, or just before so you'd be ready to go at dawn, made sense when the only real light you'd get was the sun. At night, the best you could hope to do was perhaps read or write by candlelight. The vast majority of the means of making a living required one to be outside in the light.

But today, most people make their living in a way that almost requires artificial light - people in offices, computer rooms, warehouses, vehicles, etc. There is, therefore, no technical advantage to working strictly during daylight. If you are a computer tech, for example, there is no advantage to getting up at 5am every morning like you're a freaking farmer or something, yet, for some odd reason, you'll still see a lot of people thump their chests and virtue signal about how they are up at the crack of dawn every day. I personally find people who can't stay awake past 8pm to be incredibly annoying.

For thousands of years man’s normal sleep cycle was daylight to dark. It still is... Despite us trying to cheat it. Maybe this is part of why our culture has gone insane. We were just not built physically or mentally to follow this modern 24 hour cycle. That is city stuff, country stuff is STILL daylight to dark. And maybe that is why country folk are more sane... lol

With that said... There are many different fields of work where starting in the morning is almost imperative. Garbage collection, Construction, and others where getting most of it done before the rest of the world wakes up is the only productive way to do it.

Like myself, I do a bit of web development. At 3 Am the net is dead, and it is easier and faster for me to do my work because no one is on the sites I am working on. I also own a business where I have to work outside all day. But I am in the desert, so in the summer getting up at three and getting a project done before it gets hot is a huge advantage.

There are many many cases of this reality and why it is more productive to get started early.