Fast Time Strikes Again

My ancestors who were subject to Daylight Savings Time detested it. They were all farmers and farmers work on sun time. They started work when the sun rose and stopped when the sun set. My great grandfather Matthew L. and my grandfather Earl would set the clock at the farm using a table giving time of sunrise for each day of the year. That was the first task in the morning. In those days there could be as many as 40 people working on the farm in the summer. The virtue of sun time is that the apex of the sun's travel is always 12 noon. No one had watches then, but at this latitude it was easy to tell when it was noon. You faced north standing straight up. If you could place your foot on the shadow of your head, it was noon and time to go home for dinner. Dinner was at noon. Even my father hated "fast time" because he would lose an extra hour of work if he had an evening meeting. The railroads were the culprits. They needed uniform time to keep trains and people on schedule. All towns followed it. But out in the country, who cared! But I live in town now, and will spend way too much time taking all the clocks in house and vehicles off fast time tomorrow.