RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Standard Time has long been known as “God’s time”1234567 to many farmers, ruralites, and religious populations. By virtue of its approximate alignment of clocks to the sun’s position in the sky, Standard Time brings us closer to nature, and therefore arguably closer to God’s creation. In contrast, Daylight Saving Time arbitrarily adds an hour to the clock, which makes it a false measurement of where the sun is positioned in the sky.

In the Holy Bible, the book of Leviticus declares “Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.”8 Deuteronomy adds “Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.”9 Proverbs 11:1 proclaims that “A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.”10 Proverbs 16:11 adds that “A just weight and balance are the Lord’s: all the weights of the bag are his work.”11 Proverbs 20:10 asserts that “Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.”12 Proverbs 20:23 further states that “Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.”13

Traditional Chinese medicine, and related disciplines of acupuncture and yoga, prescribe various exercises to be performed each day at specific hours around the natural solar clock.1415 Standard Time’s alignment of clocks to the sun better facilitates these, while DST’s misalignment needlessly obfuscates them.

DST also creates undue scheduling conflicts for orthodox Jews and Muslims. Daily prayers timed are to sunrise, but permanent DST’s artificially delayed sunrises would force these to overlap with work hours in winter. Other observations are timed to sunset, and permanent DST’s artificial delay of sunset can thus reduce the number of business that remain open into twilight.16171819