Daylight Saving Time

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Soledad Castillo has a list of grave problems she wants Mexico's next president to solve. Low salaries. Rising crime. Poverty. But a different issue was troubling the 41-year-old cleaning woman one recent morning as she attended a campaign rally in this city in southwestern Mexico. It was something more urgent, more sinister--an evil that has aroused Mexicans nationwide in an extraordinary political backlash. Daylight saving time. "They say we'll save energy. But we don't save any.

The start of daylight saving time didn't deter Ojai Valley Community Church parishioners from getting up before the sun on Sunday. Wearing ski caps, scarves and sweaters, they came out in droves to stand near the water for the second annual Easter Sunrise Service at Lake Casitas. Their hands wrapped around cups of steaming hot chocolate or coffee, couples cuddled together under flannel blankets and wool coats, and children fiddled in their folding chairs, impatient to gobble sprinkled doughnuts.

Before you head out the door this morning, take another look at the clock. Did you remember to set it forward one hour last night? If not, you're late. Daylight saving time started at 2 a.m. today, stealing an hour from our lives that won't be returned until October. Thanks to this annual rite of spring, people all over town are showing up late today for everything from Easter sunrise services to brunch at Hugo's.

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.

Daylight saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, and clocks should be moved ahead one hour. Pacific Standard Time will return in October.

When people set their clocks forward this weekend for daylight saving time, more is at stake than that lost hour of sleep. For the millions who suffer from seasonal affective disorder, the time change brings some relief from the depression of the winter months. "In October, when the clocks are rolled back, people find it depressing because there is less daylight" in their waking day, said Suzanne Kline, an Anaheim psychologist who treats depression.