This seems most unlikely, since until the appearance of electricity most of humanity lived by sun time, and slept during the dark hours. Only the affluent could afford "artificial" light, eg tallow based tapers, candles, olive oil and other similar based lamps etc. For the overwhelming majority it wasn't possible to do anything useful with a waking interval between dusk and dawn.
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This seems most unlikely, since until the appearance of electricity most of humanity lived by sun time, and slept during the dark hours. Only the affluent could afford "artificial" light, eg tallow based tapers, candles, olive oil and other similar based lamps etc. For the overwhelming majority it wasn't possible to do anything useful with a waking interval between dusk and dawn.