SECTIONS 6800-6807 - California Statutes

GOVERNMENT CODE

SECTION 6800-6807

6800. The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is
computed by excluding the first day, and including the last, unless
the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded.

6801. Time is computed according to the Gregorian or new style; and
January 1st, in every year, after 1752 is reckoned as the first day
of the year.

6802. The years 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, or any other future
hundredth year, of which the year 2000 is the first, except only
every fourth hundredth year, are not leap years, but common years of
365 days. The years 2000, 2400, 2800, and every other fourth
hundredth year after 2000 and every fourth year, except as provided
in this section, which, by usage in this State is considered a leap
year, is a leap year consisting of 366 days.

6803. "Year" means a period of 365 days; "half year," 182 days;
"quarter of a year," 91 days. The added day of a leap year, and the
day immediately preceding, if they occur in any such period, shall be
reckoned together as one day.

6804. "Month" means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed.

6805. A week consists of seven consecutive days.

6806. A day is the period of time between any midnight and the
midnight following.

6807. "Daytime" is the period of time between sunrise and sunset.
"Nighttime" is the period of time between sunset and sunrise.