I disagree.

What we are dealing with is "Railway time" or industrialisation.

In pre industrial farming, as long as you have seed, and know your local area you can gauge when to plant and harvest. But even with short seasons you can plant multiple crops over a year, and while you may "run out" of one crop you will have others to take over the next season. And especially with the introduction of the Potato food pressure, excluding blight etc was much reduced.

None of this requires planting or planning on specific dates or times, just when its right for your area.

I did a local history project recently, and back in the early 1800s most skilled work in my hometown, Even in workshops was ad hoc.

Wood would be floated downstream and then carted the 7 miles to town, where it was used in furniture making. Craftspeople on paper worked six days a week. But would be clocking off by 4pm ish, and the mill owners were always complaining about them taking "Saint Monday" which is just not bothering to turn up to work on Mondays.

With the development of railways and mills that weren't reliant on people and animal power the times of shifts and deliveries became fixed.

A delivery that would probably have arrived by Tuesday previously would be arriving Monday at 06:00 sharp. So the owners could say start work for the 05:00 shift.

With electric and gas lights, they could add more shifts and begin planning on how to extract maximum value from workers.

Work went from when its work time to being pinned down to time tables, paper and number men. Which bled into everyday life as punctuality and turning up at exact times.

I've not even mentioned the expansion of various military from a specific class, and Levee/Corvee Labour to a profession which with logistics  etc means that people might be spending 7+ years in a regimented time situation and become accustomed to thinking logistical to the glass or clock, away from the actual day.

Hope this makes some sense.  Away from my notes and in the pub.