Nope...farmers work from before sunup to after sundown ....clocks have no bearing on crop growth or animals. You were told a convenient lie.

Daylight gets shorter, daylight gets longer......been doing this long before man invented timekeeping.

Ben Franklin inventing it was a misconception, so was the idea some bug collector in New Zealand created it. As for farmers...they work from before sunrise to after sunset every day. Time doesn6matter to animals and crops.