Can. 200 Unless the law provides otherwise, time is to be reckoned in accordance with
the following canons.
Can. 201 ß1 Continuous time means unbroken time.
ß2 Canonical time is time which a person can so use to exercise or to pursue a right
that it does not run when one is unaware, or when one is unable to act.
Can. 202 ß1 In law, a day is understood to be a space of twenty-four hours, to be
reckoned continuously and, unless expressly provided otherwise, it begins at midnight; a
week is a space of seven days‚ a month is a space of thirty days, and a year a space of
three hundred and sixty-five days, unless it is stated that the month and the year are to
be taken as in the calendar.
ß2 If time is continuous, the month and the year are always to be taken as in the
calendar.
Can. 203 ß1 The first day is not to be counted in the total, unless its beginning
coincides with the beginning of the day, or unless the law expressly provides otherwise.
ß2 Unless the contrary is prescribed, the final day is to be reckoned within the
total; if the total time is one or more months, one or more years, one or more weeks, it
finishes on completion of the last day bearing the same number or, if the month does not
have the same number, on the completion of the last day of that month.