Is there a Bible-based, Christian position on Daylight Savings Time?

Not specifically, no, but …

Scripture does teach us some things that should inform a Christian’s thinking on the subject.

We can begin with the beginning — literally. Genesis 1 shows us, from the very first day of Creation, that God designed the world with a cycle of darkness and light. Indeed, the summary of each day’s work of creation rings out as a refrain there six times: “There was evening and there was morning.”

Genesis also shows us that Adam and Eve, the first humans, were designed and created within that cycle of light and dark. God’s plan placed us in that world he created to be governed by the sun by day and the moon and stars by night. While everything from campfires and candles to searchlights and LEDs have allowed men and women of every time to not be constrained by the darkness of the night, we recognize that those are artificial means of adapting to the natural cycle of our bodies and the world.

Verses like Psalm 127:2 — “It is useless for you to get up early and to work late, worrying about bread to eat, because God grants sleep to the one he loves.” (EHV) — are also instructive. They lead us to think critically about all the things we do and our society encourages that fight against our and the world’s design; they are, essentially, puny human attempts to take control of things that are in and belong in God’s hands.

What Scripture teaches us about Stewardship also applies to this question. Each of us has a responsibility to take good care of what the Lord has entrusted to us, and our bodies and lives are at the top of the list of things we should manage well. While some people are atypical with their circadian rhythms (I’ve read, for instance, that this can be a thing with ADHD), for the majority of us keeping the timing of our daily lives—especially our waking and sleeping—aligned with the sun’s rising and setting is going to be what is best for our own health, work, productivity, and prospering.

You might have come to believe, perhaps with good reason, that some other kind of schedule is better for you. Science and medicine show pretty clearly, however — as this article illustrates — that human beings generally do better when the culture’s clocks are in sync with their biological clocks (standard time). So Love for Your Neighbor also figures in to our thinking about Daylight Savings Time: Even if you yourself don’t benefit, what’s best for other people is your priority. So you are not likely to support laws or policies that result in what is not going to be best for your fellow citizens.

So it’s not just about you. There were reasonable arguments for beginning Daylight Savings Time in the first place, and there are still reasonable arguments for continuing it. 

But “Things should be this way because it’s what I prefer,” or “The law should reflect what best suits my lifestyle”? Self-centered or self-serving thinking like that is not the way Christ’s people approach an issue or argue when it comes to public policy.