Daylight Saving Time

Christians who like to celebrate Easter with a sunrise service have a little extra challenge this year: daylight saving time.

Easter will be observed this year on the day most Americans move their clocks ahead one hour. That means those 6 a.m. sunrise services will feel uncannily like 5 a.m. services.

“Oh yes, we’ve been putting it in our newsletter, in our Sunday order of worship, every week: ‘Remember to set your clocks back,’ ” said Dee Caraway, administrative assistant at United Methodist Church of Garden Grove. “All the churches are.”

Caraway has no doubt that some worshipers will be a bit late for the church’s annual 6:30 a.m. sunrise service on Easter, --one of four the church is offering that day in English, Samoan and Korean. But “Easter is such an important event that most people keep track of it,” time changes notwithstanding, she said.

Early-morning worshipers do have one consolation: Though Easter and the advent of daylight saving time coincided in 1988, 1994 and 1996, they won’t match up again until 2010.