Actually, it didn't.
Farmers and their critters (and crops) get up at dawn and go to bed at night. The schools could always have had winter hours.
The same is true today.
DST is a farce...kill it.
Official: Russian UN ambassador died from heart attack (from @AP) https://t.co/zjhw9kqpwk— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 11, 2017