User blog comment:TorusDrovenson/Why is DST a thing?/@comment-26475800-20180312164038

Daylight saving time was invented to help the farmers get the most time of sun to work. It’s antiquated now, because the US doesn’t have as many farms as it did when it was first invented and most states haven’t done away with it. There are a couple that had though, but can’t think of which ones they are.