Reply To: why “early to bed, early to rise” and not “late to bed, late to rise”?

Because when Benjamin Franklin published this adage, there was no electric or gaslights in homes and businesses.
People had to make the most of daylight hours to be productive and earn a living.
Go try farming in the dark….That’s why we have Daylight Savings Time…to increase farm production.
Candles were expensive, they gave limited light for work purposes.